Quirt ?
Unidentified Wari (Huari) maker
Pre-Columbian
Leather and plant fiber
Overall: 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, Class of 1921W
165.3.15559
Geography
Place Made: Pachacamac, Peru, South America
Object Name
Transportation: Land, Animal
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, (1899-1976), Class of 1921, United States Ambassador to Peru, 1955-1956; Mrs. Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, 3 Pleasant Street, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1965.
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