knee cord, pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Two long, unadorned cords each with only one end bearing a pendant. Pendant consists of 4 tiny bead strands ending with red feathers. Dr. Newton says that these were obtained from Buchuk Helena, a 17 y/o female and made by Amjuk, a 48 y/o female. Used and sold as an imcomplete set. The feather cord she did not wish to sell, but wore in the demonstration photo. Long cords and feather cords are mekonchi mekai ano?chu. The square cordage (cross section) is made from a single strand (crochet). Cord is 2z cotton, bead cord and tie is 2z tucum/caroa, and the pendants are glass seed beads. Newton field photo bw B12.32. Helena wears the long cords with the requisite feather pendant cord, which was not collected. Price paid: 1crn. "Method of attachment to leg, recorded only for this set when the photo was taken. See diagram photo in multimedia tab. First the long cord is wrapped around leg below the knee in a close set spiral from the knee downwards (in this case she began with the right leg), wrapping clockwise on her right leg and counterclockwise on her left leg. The ties and joins are all at the center front. Tucum tie strand (on the beaded end of the long cord) then wraps around alternate cords going up the leg and then around the top cord and down alternate loops. The feather pendant cord is applied and the tie strand, reaching the base, encircles the feathered cord ends which cross just there."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apinaye
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431284-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee cord
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 270 cm
label: Width
content: 1 cm