Context (Found together / assemblage)
Four of the items collected by G. La-Coste and described by Rev. Acland (1871) are now in the British Museum (Am1980,Q.4564-4566 and Am1983,Q.239).
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1913.506.6-7: 'Two miniature red ware pots, squat with everted rim, handles under rim. One pot contains fine twine (?original).'

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Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
The Rev. Acland collection (D 1893.15, 1913.506.1-23) was described in the 1893 Accession Register as coming from 'grave mounds near Arica, Peru [now Chile], which were laid open by an earthquake wave [on 13 August] 1868.' According to Acland (1872), 'the collection was made by G. La-Coste, Esq., H.M.S. Malacca, and by him presented to me. He apologised to me for its being so small, on the ground that as he was but a midshipman at the time, he had nowhere to stow the things but in a corner of his box' (p. 234).
Event Date 1868
Author: maa

Context (References)
Acland, C. L. (1872). ‘Notice of some Peruvian Antiquities obtained from a Burial-Mound at Arica.’ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 9. pp 234–238.
Event Date 1872
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Acquisition Details)
The Rev. Acland collection from Arica (D 1893.15, 1913.506.1-23) was deposited in the Museum in 1893, where it was registered in the Annual Report of that year as 'a small collection of antiquities, consisting of five stone, eight copper, two bone, thirty-one wooden, one leather, five earthenware objects and ten objects of fibre, hair and mixed material'. With the apparent exception of D 1893.15, the collection was subsequently re-accessioned in 1913, with the donor listed as Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes although it was referred to as the Acland Collection. This time it was entered into the Accession Register, rather than the Deposits Register, so it appears that that McKenny Hughes had acquired the collection (previously on deposit) and then gifted it to the museum or perhaps gave money for its formal acquisition; the precise details are currently unclear.
Event Date 1893
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Bundle of thin plaited brown thread, possibly hemp or wool.
Event Date 30/10/2024
Author: Clare McKenna