Shrunken Monkey-Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jul 1935
name: label: Donor Name
content: William A. Larner Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF HEAD WITH DR. RICHARD THORINGTON, DEPT. OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, NMNH, HAS IDENTIFIED THE ANIMAL AS A BLACK SPIDER MONKEY, ATELES CHAMEK, FROM THE UPPER AMAZON. - DR. DAVID HUNT 12-15-2001 FROM CARD: "SHRUNKEN IN THE SAME MANNER AS THEY USED IN TREATING HUMAN HEAD TROPHIES. TWO WOODEN PEGS STUCK THROUGH SKIN OF MOUTH AND NOSE. (HOLE FOR 3RD PEG.)". CT scanned 4/2/2014
label: Notes
content: COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF HEAD WITH DR. RICHARD THORINGTON HAS IDENTIFIED THE ANIMAL WAS A BLACK SPIDER MONKEY, ATELES CHAMEK, FROM THE UPPER AMAZON.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: East, Ecuador, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Jivaro (Shuar)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 134930
label: USNM Number
content: E373854-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shrunken Head