Description (Physical description)
Description for 1986.87 [A-Q] reads: 'A number of drawings (17) on paper produced by the Nahuas for Alonso Zarzar (collector) when in the field. A number of drawings have an explanation (i.e. references to themes/objects etc. depicted) written on either in Spanish or English (sometimes at back).'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card reads: 'Nahua Group Indians settled in Sepahwa, S.E. Peruvian Amazonia in the Ucayali province in 1985.'
Event Date 1985
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 22/02/1988.
Event Date 22/2/1988
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
A drawing on white paper using blue and purple felt tip pen. Different lines and patterns are drawn some overlapping. At the centre are bands of black: chevrons, crosshatching and rhombuses bounded by lines. There are also purple and black looping circular and wiggly lines at the sides. Written along one edge in black pen in Spanish and with English above in pencil: 'joven fuerte', 'tripa', 'intestines of frog', 'Face', 'quebrede' 'V. small [possibly] sheam', 'Frog' 'para', 'ribs of small fish' 'costilla [possibly] palomere', 'Face pattern.', 'care', 'intestines of little frog' and 'tripa de sapitio'.
Event Date 26/7/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins