Basket, woman's mayaku burden basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1981 to 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket made from split bamboo, some dyed. Rim is round, bottom is square with interior wooden frame anchored with white cotton and palm fiber thread. Complicated woven diamond and chevron pattern with 4 cotton tassels, one at each corner. Cotton binding just below rim. Buriti strings cross across the opening. Large open cross painted on the bottom.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: All-purpose basket, carried exclusively by women and girls, for carrying loose items on top of the head, or for storing items at home. Large twill-weave basket, with "trail of the leaf-cutter ant" design (kutákumá áhinabúla), and "inside it" (onakupai), "tapir footprints" (teme ikitsapa), referring to Tapirus terrestris. The underside has been painted with "piranha teeth" (ímitséwe) design.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jan 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piyulaga village, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wauja (Waurá)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435252-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 57.5 cm
label: Width
content: 56 cm
label: Height
content: 21.5 cm