Basket, woman's mayaku burden 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, bottom is square with interior wooden frame anchored with white cotton thread. Woven diamond pattern with 4 cotton tassels, one at each corner and cotton binding just below rim. Buriti strings cross the opening.
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. Small twill-weave basket, with "rattlesnake markings" design (keyetsitsá ogána). The design is "like the rattlesnake, with lots of dots inside" (referring to the area inside the diamond shapes) (itsa (keyetsitsá, kapalatipé onaku). The design refers to the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus), or cascavel in Brazilian Portuguese.
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: E435233-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 39.5 cm
label: Width
content: 38 cm
label: Height
content: 13.25 cm