Sling
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1984
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Native cotton band with woven pattern of individual diamonds. Stripes of commercial cotton, woven in green, pink, white, green, pink, dark blue, pink, green, white, pink, green stripes. Four of the larger diamonds have been picked out in hot pink paint or ink. At each end are two tassels of undyed native cotton. Tassel strings are strung with scleria seeds, tops are of deer hoof tips. Dr. Newton says: use: uncertain, maybe for the Wu?tu, don't know what year made. Obtained from seller Yonwut, a 27 yo male, husband of the slingmaker. Made by Yawidn, Yu?prum (Elena) a 23 y/o female. Condition: used. Warp: commerical cotton colored. Weft: commercial cotton, white. Modifications: paint to outersurface, pink, erratic. Pendants: bead cordage is 2 ply tucum/caroa. Tassels are commercial cotton. Seed bead: scleria/aku. Commerical beads are glass. Deer hoof/nails. No price paid. Associated specimens, field number 1984-39.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Timbira, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Krikati
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431344-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 97 cm
label: Width
content: 7.5 cm