Pocketbook
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: MAN'S SHOULDER BAG/POCKETBOOK OF INTERLACED BURITI. MADE OF TWO PIECES FOLDED IN THRIDS TO FORM POCKET AND FLAP. FLAP IS DECORATED BY CHANGING WEAVING DIRECTIONS SO THAT THERE ARE 6 BROADER STRIPS DIVIDED BY 6 THIN STRIPES, WITH TWO THIN STRIPES NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN THE MIDDLE. THIN STRIPES ARE ALOSO COMPLETELY PAINTED WITH YELLOW. THE BROAD STIPES ARE PAINTED IN TRIANGLES. CENTER OF FRONT EDGE OF FLAP CONCEALS SMALL FIBER LOOP. BOTTOM FRONT EDGE HAS A SMALL FIBER CORD KNOTTED AND THREADED FROM INSIDE WHICH FASTENS THE FLAP LOOP. MADE BY AND OBTAINED FROM GU'TUM. PHOTOS AND DETAILED OBSERVATION MADE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS OBJECT. 6 CRN. ASSOCIATED WITH 1968-48 (426645). ANOTHER SPECIMEN WAS MADE TWO DAYS LATER COLLECTED FOR MUSEO GOELDI. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR CENSUS AND LINGUISTIC INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Timbira, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apinaye
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E426646-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pocketbook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 27 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 23.5 cm
label: Height - Excluding Strap
content: 8 cm