Feather Headdress "Krokroti"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
notes: label: Notes
content: HYACINTH, BLUE AND YELLOW, SCARLET, GREEN-WINGED MACAW FEATHERS ANCHORED IN HANDWOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. WHITE MAGUARI STORK FEATHERS ATTACHED TO TIPS OF MACAW FEATHERS. CALLED A KROKROTI, IDENTIFIED BY DR. WILLIAM FISHER, WHOSE EXPERTISE IS WITH THE NORTHERN KAYAPO. NO EVIDENCE OF PRIOR USE, COULD HAVE BEEN MADE FOR SALE IN THE FUNAI STORE, RUN BY THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT. THIS ITEM ARRIVED AT THE FUNAI STORE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. ONE OF 9 KAYAPO HEADDRESSES FROM BRAZIL CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA (TERVUREN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT, 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409933
label: USNM Number
content: E426550-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 69 cm