Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
notes: label: Notes
content: ONE HYACINTH, ONE BLUE AND YELLOW, ONE SCARLET, ALL OTHERS GREEN-WINGED MACAW FEATHERS ANCHORED IN A WOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. IDENTIFIED AS MENTUKTIRE KAYAPO FROM THE XINGU IN THE STATE OF MATO GROSS ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. PRICE TAG INDICATES THAT ITEM ARRIVED AT FUNAI STORE BEFORE GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. NO EVIDENCE OF PRIOR USE, PROBABLY MADE FOR SALE AT FUNAI STORE. THIS ITEM IS ONE OF 9 NORTHERN KAYAPO FEATHER HEADDRESSES CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHER IDENTIFICATIONS BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, MNHN DEPT OF BIRDS WHOSE REPORT IS INCLUDED IN THE ACCESSIONS PAPERS. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM OF CENTRAL AFRICA (TERVUREN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT, 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo, Mentuktire
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409933
label: USNM Number
content: E426557-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 185 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 32.5 cm