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 split cane; bottom is square with interior wooden frame anchored with white and red cotton thread. Woven diamond and line pattern with 4 white cotton tassels. Cotton binding just below rim. Buriti strings across the opening.
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. Wityáto (split bamboo) basketry; with the last inch or so under rim finished using a different material, pulúto. Since pulúto is considered inferior material, and since the rim is the last part of the basket to be woven, it is likely that the basket maker ran out of the preferred wityato material. Rim wrapped with hand-spun Wauja cotton dyed with store-bought red dye. Lashing inside bottom is hand-dyed part natural and part-red using store-bought red dye. Tassels all hand-spun Wauja cotton. Faint brown stain on tassels suggests they once were painted with anatto dye, which fades over time. Ambitious and complex design, imperfectly executed. Note uneven spacing between the strips, and lines that are wavy instead of clean and straight.
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: E435263-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 35 cm
label: Width
content: 39 cm
label: Height
content: 18.5 cm