What is it about?
Obsidian lens conserved in the Mineralogical Gallery of the Museum Nat. d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris had loose its story. It was analysed in PIXE technique and we have discovered it come from the Mullumica obsidian source in Ecuador. By other way, we found the story of a famous obsidian mirror send to Paris from Quito in 1737 by astronomers of the Godin-La Condamine expedition in viceroyalty of Peru. This article describe this research story.
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Why is it important?
Importance of this identification is the prove that all artefacts send by this expedition are not loose.
Perspectives
Trying to found more of these artefacts send in 1735, 1737, coming back with La Condamine in 1745 and send by Joseph de Jussieu to his brothers in France.
PhD François GENDRON
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
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This page is a summary of: New Clues on the Origin of the “Inca Mirror” at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, Latin American Antiquity, March 2019, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/laq.2019.3.
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