Woman's mayaku 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 split cane; bottom is square with interior wooden frame anchored with white cotton thread which has darkened. Woven pattern is dark on the bottom with 4 white cotton tassels. Cotton binding just below rim. Buriti strings cross across the opening. Appears to have downy feathers inside trapped under the wood frame.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: All-purpose basket, carried exclusively by women and girls, for carrying loose items on top of the head, or for storing items at home. Pulúto (split buriti palm stalk), rim and tassels of hand-spun Wauja cotton. Tassels originally stained crimson with anatto dye, since faded to light brown; reinforcing sticks inside. Twill-plaited basket, of a cubical shape, not the wide and shallow shape women use for carrying loads on their heads. This basket would be suitable for storing personal items from the house rafters. These items might be balls of cotton thread, or bead or shell necklaces. Wauja description of design on 2016 Recovering Voices videos.
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: E435262-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 27 cm
label: Width
content: 26 cm
label: Height
content: 20 cm