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200-600 C.E.
Paracas Necropolis
Arts of the Americas
- Maker/Artist
- Paracas Necropolis
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Leather; semi-tanned skins and fiber thread Conservation report by ASF dated 6/5/86 notes that under a microscope the presence of quill shafts protruding from the skin pores is indicated. It has been suggested that this may be the skin of a Coendous porcupine, native to the coastal areas of Peru (see Nowek, R. M. & J. L. Parades, eds., "Walker's Mammals of the World", 4th edition, v. II, pps. 799-800; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
- Medium
- leather, semi-tanned, skins, fiber, thread, conservation, report, asf, dated, notes, ,
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