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. Woven diamond pattern. 4 cotton tassels. Cotton binding just below rim.
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. Twill-weave basket woven in "top of the anaconda's head" design (walamá onéputáku), referring to the Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus). [Note attached to basket in 1982: "kulupiyene, ui ogana".] Basketry material the Wauja call pulúto, which is split from the outer layer of the stalks of the buriti palm (Mauritia flexuosa), tassels and edging under the rim of Wauja cotton, reinforcing sticks inside.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 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: E435228-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 47.5 cm
label: Width
content: 44 cm
label: Height
content: 20.25 cm