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date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Interlaced buriti palm fiber head band. Front: 18 cm has 8 macaw tail feathers and 4 parrot tail feathers inserted vertically through band. 2 parrot feathers are fastened horizontally across the front. Parrot feathers are clipped. At the back there are 4 small feathers vertically inserted. Pieces of red feather are glued to the band's surface at the base of the feathers. 2 strings of small black, and Job's tears seeds. One ends with 2 large red seeds and 2 feathers. Used as illustration for NMNH Annual Report 2003.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (8 flt fthrs (1 blu/red, 7 blu), 1 red body, 2 multicolor body, misc. pieces red body fthrs); Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao (1 tail (red w/ distal blue)); Orange-winged Parrot, Amazona amazonica (7 flight fthrs (6 multicolor, 1 grn)).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Krikati
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431097-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 45 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm