Sling
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: Native cotton band woven with a diamond pattern in 2 rows, yellow colored (urucu root?) dye between diamond rows. Two tassels at each end also with yellow dye. Tassel strings alternate seeds and cane tubes. Dr. Newton says: made for use in the Krikati Wu?tu ceremony of 1973. Received at ceremony end by Yo?yo a Kraho, 40 y/o male. Yo?yo does not know who made it but opinions solicited independantly from women who were shown this sling follow: Kiyi?he says that she made the sling for Yo?yo for the ceremony, but it might not have been this one; Prednko says that Hukula (Maria de Jesus) 21 y/o female says that she made this sling, that it was her first attempt at weaving. It is exceptional that a male would be the post-ceremonial owner of a sling; in this case his status as Kraho guest (in 1973) in the community might explain his being allowed to keep a sling he received for the ceremony. I would think that more likely than his being given a different sling at the ceremony end, rather than a headband. (I do not know the likelihood of male ceremonial sling users being recipients of headband at its end.) This sling breaks the convention of putting one (probably the first) pendant at the beginning/end on the band. Used. Warp and weft: 2s cotton. Yellow paint. Bead cordage: 2z buriti. Tassels: 2z cotton with yellow paint. Beads: Ormosia seeds, large-medium red, reed segments. Price paid: 15crs.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, 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: E431334-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length - Band
content: 83 cm
label: Width - Band
content: 6 cm