Headband with horns
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Woven buriti headband with thick rims. Appliqued to band are tubular plastic beads, and quills in a geometric pattern. The front has horizontal horns attached by fiber binding. There are 2 tiny red beads woven in on the right front top. Long tail of 4 strands strung beads, ending with feathers: two anchored with shells, one with a bead, and the 4th with a seed (Job's tears). Each beads string has tubular beads and quills. Dr. Newton says obtained from and made by Pu?u (Davi) a 46 y/o male. Unused, but would be used by catador (sing-dance leader). Indian names for techniques used: edge of band (square in cross-section) -kangbodu. flat center section: kanutswa design in beads and porcupine quill: kanuere, kanju porcupine quill (espindecuandu) ngro inye (long white "beads") feathers, both brown and black: juriti (Port.) pulgacu horns: amblrec Band: buriti frond, interlaced, with horns, applique beads of plastic, glass and porcupine quills. Binding and bead string is 2z tucum. Tail: plastic beads, porcupine quills, sea shells, Job's Tears and feathers. All juriti. Price paid: 2 crn. Associated specimens: purchased with field numbers 1968-770, 71
label: Notes
content: White-tipped Dove, Leptoptila verreauxi (4 tail and 4 wing feathers); Red-legged Seriema, Cariama cristata (1 barred underwing covert)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apinaye
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431112-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headband
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 34 cm
label: Width
content: 12 cm