Context (Field collection)
The Colchester Museum label read that the collection was from Chimbote and Trujillo.
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (Analysis)
On the reverse of original catalogue cards is a drawing and a photograph copied from 'The Magazine of Fine Arts, Vol. I, No. 1' (November, 1905) showing a detail from 'Peruvian Pottery', in which four human figurines are carrying an object of the same shape as this one. It is 'described as a litter, containing a reclining figure,' but according to G.H.S. Bushnell 'this seems doubtful' and that it is 'ascribed, probably wrongly, to Nazca.'
Event Date
Author: maa

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: Dominique Devadason

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

Description (Physical description)
Problematical object, shaped like a seed slit down the side, with pipe extension either end; ?litter
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in G.H.S. Bushnell's hand reads: 'Probably of Chimu culture. Chimbote'.
Event Date 1947
Author: Dominique Devadason

Context (Analysis)
This object was originally described as a 'problematic object'; but it appears to match the features of a 'miniature funerary bundle' as illustrated by The Met (1964) in 'Miniature funerary bundle', https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/309213.
It also appears to match the features of a 'model funeral cortege' as illustrated by the Krannert Art Museum (1967) in 'Model of Funeral Cortege', https://collection.kam.illinois.edu/objects-1/info/2841; and by Margaret A. Jackson (2008) in 'Krannert Art Museum: Selected Works', https://kam.illinois.edu/collection-highlight/model-funeral-cortege.
Event Date 10/12/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason

Description (Physical description)
Silver alloy miniature funerary bundle. Possibly part of a model funeral cortege, specifically a model of an ovoid casket or mummy bundle on a carrying pole. Cylindrical tube with longitudinal seam line terminates on both ends with a flat butt end with a central perforation, one end has been crumpled and bent; central on the tube is an ovoid form comprised of two dented hemispheres, there is a gap between the two components; four small rectangular forms perforate the ovoid form; ovoid form is secured to the tube with two cylindrical fasteners. Surface has a mottled brass hue; some green accretions present; dented throughout.
Event Date 13/12/2024
Author: Dominique Devadason