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 and wrapped in split cane; bottom is square with interior wooden frame anchored with white cotton thread. Woven diagonal stripe pattern with 4 white cotton tassels. Cotton binding just below rim. Buriti strings across the opening.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: Men's basket, typically made of inner bark strips wrapped on a wood frame, used for carrying heavy loads, or storing supplies in the home. INTERESTING WORKMANSHIP. Large twill-weave basket with two designs: (1) "winding river" design (wénewénesúku), and (2) kulúpiyené (referring to the lozenge shape of a fish the neighboring Mehinaku people call "kulupei" and the Wauja call "ausityepe" (possibly Piaractus brachypomus or Metynnis argenteus), commonly called pacú in Brazilian Portuguese. The design is clever because the maker worked parts of the design in one color, so that the "winding river" design, at first glance, appears not as the familiar wavy lines, but instead a double series of slanted parallel lines, all angled in the same direction, which is the "river grass" design. Likewise, the "pacú fish design" (kulúpiyené) is not the rows of nested diamond shapes one expects, but instead, a double band of zig-zags. In a sense, the maker has used variation in contrast to superimpose two new trompe l'oeil designs on the original two inherent the weave. Two reinforcing sticks in bottom snapped.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2019
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: E435254-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 66 cm
label: Width
content: 59.25 cm
label: Height
content: 20.25 cm