Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card for 1947.304, which applies to the Colchester Museum accession as a whole, notes that: 'The collection said, on the Colchester label, to come from Chimbote and Trujillo'.
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Other owners)
Collected by Arthur Edwin Macandrew during the 30 years he lived in Peru, where he was the manager of a sugar plantation. He donated his collection to the Colchester Museum in July 1931; the collection was subsequently transferred to MAA in 1947.
Event Date 1931
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (References)
(1932). The Colchester & Essex Museum Annual Report, 1931-1932. Colchester: Cullingford & Co., Ltd. pp. 4 & 53.
Event Date 1932
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in G.H.S. Bushnell’s hand notes: ‘Chimbote.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
1947.389 A-B: 'Base silver objects of unknown use, shaped like a cone with a hemispherical (larger) end, separated from the cone by an indentation--resembles a peg.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Hollow object made from silver or silvered copper alloy, possibly a pendant or ornament. Formed from three sections, including a hemispherical section connected to a truncated biconical section connected to a conical section with an open apex and slightly concave sides; visible seams between each section; area of loss to domed section.
Event Date 11/12/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal