Basket, woman's mayaku burden basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1981 to 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket made from split bamboo, some dyed. Rim is round and wrapped in split cane; bottom is square with interior wooden frame anchored with white cotton thread. Woven diamond pattern. 4 dirty white cotton tassels. Red cotton binding just below rim. Buriti strings cross across the opening. Black figures painted on the bottom.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: All-purpose basket, carried exclusively by women and girls, for carrying loose items on top of the head, or for storing items at home. See Catalog for further description. Medium-size twill-weave basket, with two designs: (1) "rattlesnake markings" design (keyetsitsá ogána), referring to the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus), or cascavel in Brazilian Portuguese, and (2) "top of the anaconda's head" design (walamá onéputáku), referring to the Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus). The bottom of the basket is painted with two additional designs: (1) "hummingbird" design (kumési, species not specified), and (2) "inside the ball court" design (yétuláganáku).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piyulaga village, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wauja (Waurá)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435256-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 62.5 cm
label: Width
content: 58.5 cm
label: Height
content: 21 cm