Four orange cuttle-fish eyes(?), used by the Incas
- Made:
- 1750-1940
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Four orange cuttle-fish eyes(?), used by the Incas to put into the heads of mummies, in a box supplied by F. Dixon, a jeweller of London, eyes South American, 1750-1940
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A681010
- Materials:
- organic material, box, card, box, paper and box, cotton wool
- Measurements:
-
box: length 93 mm
box: width 27 mm
box: depth 20 mm
eye, max: diameter 18 mm
eye, max: depth 13 mm
- type:
- eye - animal component
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