drinking-horn
- Museum number
- Am1943,07.56
- Description
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Register 1943:
Composite drinking horn, silver mountings.
- Dimensions
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Length: 6 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register 1943:
Latin South American, 19th century, Peru and Chile.
Initials P R engraved on small end.
Collection formed by the late Mr Rose-Innes comprising "post-conquest" silver from Chile and Peru of the 17th -19th centuries.
See T.A. Joyce, "Yerba Maté" in Pan American Magazine, 1921, after brochure on the collection submitted by Miss Rose-Innes. (See also correspondance 1943, 1944).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
17 June 1983 - 19 February 1984, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Tears of the Moon: Spanish American Colonial silver'
- Acquisition date
- 1943
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1943,07.56