Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected and donated by Leslie Hoggarth, Protestant missionary at Sicuani.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Original description, possibly from collector's notes: 'Medicine bundle used by shaman (Curandero or paco). Wrapped in European handkerchief. Contains magnetic ore (attracts money!), ?a mouse's nest, shells, coca, red and black beans of the guayruro plant (all red are solteros and those with black patch viados). From near Sicuani.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
"Collector's information, original notes on the bundles, was found in this box. To be transferred to the paper archives" R.Hand 13/6/2000
Event Date 13/6/2000
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6089 | Freezing
Event Date 11/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Tied medicine bundle used by a shaman wrapped in a handkerchief with red checked pattern around edges. It contains magnetic ore, a scrap of newspaper, shells, coca, red and black beans of the guayruro plant (all red are solteros and those with black patch viados).
Event Date 2/9/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller