Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
notes: label: Notes
content: THREE SCARLET MACAW FEATHERS, AND MEALY PARROT FEATHERS ANCHORED IN A HANDWOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. IDENTIFIED AS KUBENKOKRE KAYAPO FROM THE STATE OF PARA ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. THERE ARE WHAT APPEAR TO BE URUCU STAINS ON THE HEADBAND INDICATING POSSIBLE PRIOR USE. THIS ITEM, WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE OBJECT IDENTIFIED AS A KRWYNHJAMY BY VERSWIJVER, ARRIVED AT THE FUNAI STORE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. IT IS ONE OF 9 KAYAPO FEATHERED HEADDRESSES FROM BRAZIL CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHERS IDENTIFIED BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, NMNH DEPT OF BIRDS, WHOSE REPORT IS INCLUDED IN THE ACCESSION PAPERS FOR THIS COLLECTION. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM OF CENTRAL AFRIAC (TERUVEN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT, 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Para, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo, Kubenkokre
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409933
label: USNM Number
content: E426552-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 114 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.2 cm