Today we get a third viscacha for this week’s Nalbound Object of the Week. There were three viscachas figures found in a grave in Nazca, Peru. (I’ve included a picture of a live viscacha below for those of us less familiar with what exactly one looks like.) They are just a few examples of the figural nalbinding found in Peru.
Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University. https://peabody.harvard.edu/ Request reproduction rights from https://peabody.harvard.edu/rights-and-reproductions
Object: Viscachas effigy
Description: Worked in yellow and dark brown yarn around a solid core, the figure includes the pointed ears, nose, and long tail of a viscacha. Overall: 10.5 x 1.5 x 3 cm (4 1/8 x 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)1
Dated to: Early Intermediate period
Nazca2
Find location: Nazca, Peru3
Material: camelid4
Stitch(es) used: (Simple) Looping.5
Object number: 46-77-30/7651A
Current location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
Link to museum catalog or other data: https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60
Pictures:
Photo: Alexandre Buisse (Nattfodd), CC BY-SA 3.0
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- https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60 ↩︎
- https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60. Estimated to 200 BCE to 600 CE as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization_of_pre-Columbian_Peru ↩︎
- https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60 ↩︎
- https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60 ↩︎
- https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/100407?ctx=4b5a04a42bb2e1beb986339955f300990aa07639&idx=60 ↩︎
