Cuttle-fish eyes
- Made:
- 1867
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License3 orange cuttle-fish eyes (?)
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3 orange cuttle-fish eyes (?), used by the Incas to put into the heads of mummies, in a circular cardboard box, eyes South American, 1867
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A680655
- Materials:
- organic material and box, cardboard
- Measurements:
-
box: diameter 40 mm
box: depth 13 mm
eyes, max: diameter 13 mm
eyes, max: depth 9 mm
- type:
- eye - animal component
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