Flat Necklace (Cadena Chata)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Sep 2002
label: Collection Date
content: 1923
name: label: Collector
content: Yolanda Hanson
label: Donor Name
content: Yolanda Hanson
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 chains connected with wing-shaped crossbars to make one wider chain. Pendant with fleur-de-lis, cross, and two figures (Adam and Eve?) with a fruit on the ground beneath. Possibly ormolu. According to Robert Laughlin, curator of Central American ethnology, this would be worn at carnival by a woman dancer (la follera). Women danced, challenging the male dancer (el montuno), shaking her long skirts at him. Possibly worn by Kuna Indians in the interior of Panama.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Panama, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuna (Guna) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2025203
label: USNM Number
content: E430799-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Pendant
content: 7.5 cm
label: Width - Pendant
content: 2.3 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object, Total Length
content: 65 cm