Sling
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1984
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Native cotton band woven with geometric designs. Three tassels each end. Four tassels tied with pink thread, two with fiber. Tassel string mostly red beads with a few blue, anchored with blue and black beads. Dr. Newton says: Uncertain if this was made for use in the We?te festival, or when it was made. Obtained from seller: Kwikwa, a 41 y/o male. Made by unknown Krikati. Seller is originally Krikati who married a Pukobye, so is in both censuses. A Krikati named Yonkaku (Maria Fatima, 33 y/o female) had this sling made for him. He has another. Used. Warp: 2s cotton. Weft: 2z cotton. Bead cordage and binding: 2z tucum/caroa and commercial pink cotton. Tassels 2s cotton, glass beads. No price.
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: Pukobye
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: E431366-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 98 cm
label: Width
content: 8 cm