Miniature Body Mask For Ruru'
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: MINIATURE BODY MASK FOR RURU'. IN FULL SCALE, THE PUBESCENT CHILD WOULD BE ABLE TO FIT INSIDE IN ORDER TO MOVE ABOUT IN THE DAYTIME UNSEEN. MADE FOR SALE BY DORIVAL, A 34 Y/O MALE. AFTER SELLING THE MAT (426758) DORIVAL OBSERVED THE SET MADE BY BENJAMIN (426807 AND 426808), DORIVAL COMMENTS THAT THE TASSEL IS PLACED WRONG -- IT GOES HORIZONTALLY WHEN IT SHOULD GO STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR. THAT IS THE OLD WAY OF DOING IT. HAKRI (36 Y/O FEMALE), WHO IS PRESENT AT THE TIME HE COMMENTS THAT SHE WAS INSIDE ONE AND YES, THE TASSEL WAS UP. DORIVAL IMPLIED THAT MODERN ONES ARE WITHOUT ANY TASSEL. NOT EVERY CHILD GETS ONE - EG. THIS YEAR, 1975, WHEN MOSTLY IT WILL BE CHILDREN. BUT THIS ONE, (426817) HE WILL MAKE WITH A TASSEL - AND GOING VERTICALLY. WITH COMPANION MAT 426758, 20 CRS. MAT WITH STRIPES WOVEN IN, FOLDED IN HALF LENGTHWISE, UPPER EDGE TIED TO THICK FIBER BUNDLE WITH THIN FIBER CORD. BUNDLE, WHICH ALSO FORMS HANDLE, IS TASSELED AT ONE END. THE MASK IS TIED SHUT IN FRONT BY A BUNDLE OF CORDS THREADED THROUGH THE EDGE ABOUT 20 CM FROM THE TOP. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR LINGUISTIC AND CENSUS INFORMATION.
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: 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: E426817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 74 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Unknown - Fringe
content: 74 cm