Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card notes that '[1959.423] A was inner wrapping of end and centre of body... [1959.423] C [was] wrapped round lower end of the body... [1959.423] G maize cob was found near Pot [1959.423] H, and algarroba seeds were wrapped in one of the textiles... [1959.423] K was found on surface nearby.'
Event Date 1958
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
The remains of a mummy bundle which had been disturbed. Skeleton very fragmentary, skull missing. It was accompanied by [1959.423] A-K. Found in the Quebrada Queri, flowing into the Tocanao oasis which is next to the San Pedro Oasis on its south side. The cemetery consists of separate burials in shelters and scoops in the rock, below the Pucara Alta Labra (?a fort), to which it may or may not be related. There are engravings on the cliff above the cemetery. Excavated by Lawrence Barfield, Cambridge Atacama Desert Expedition, July to August 1958. See letter in archive from Lawrence Barfield to G.H.S. Bushnell (MM1/6/11).
Event Date 1958
Author: maa

Context (References)
‘Cambridge University Team Explore Driest Desert’. The Times, 14 October 1958, p. 5
Event Date 15/10/1958
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1959.423 G: 'Maize cobs (found close to pot H). Algarroba seeds (wrapped in one of the textiles).
Event Date 1959
Author: Dominique Devadason

Description (Physical description)
G. Maize cobs and algarroba seeds.
Event Date 1959
Author: maa

Context (References)
Aarons, J. and Vita-Finzi, C. (1960). The Useless Land: A Winter In the Atacama Desert. London: R. Hale.
Event Date 1960
Author: Dominique Devadason