Headband
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1964
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Babassu frond headband, decorated with geometric designs in black and blue. The tail is a fiber string which ends in two feather tassels. Feathers are attached by fiber and 3 seeds. All feathers have tips cut off. The short upper feathers are red, green and blue. The other tassel is made of 2 short green and one long, red/blue macaw tail feather. Dr. Newton says maker unknown. Band: babassu flat frond, with black and blue painted markings. Tail: buriti cord with macaw and parrot feathers. Aku and cotton seed beads.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (1 tail (red w/ distal blue)); Blue-crowned Parakeet, Aratinga acuticauda (1 tail (grn w/ distal blue)); Sun Parakeet, Aratinga solstitalis (3 tail (1grn, 2 grn/red)).
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
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: E431110-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headband
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 114 cm
label: Width
content: 18 cm