Sling
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: Native cotton band woven in a 3-diamond line pattern. Two native cotton tassels at each end, with deer hoof tips at top. Tassel strings strung with seeds (scleria?). Dr. Newton says: made for use in the Pukubye Wu?tu ceremony of 1968. Obtained from unidentified man, one of 3 from Gaviao ceremonial group. Made by Yanu (Florisa) a 30 y/o female. Pendants perfuntory, 2 strands -- as is characteristic of slings in initial ceremonial use by males, the same materials are used for band and pendant cordage, suggesting that the weaver of the band also put on the pendants. Used. Warp and weft: 2s cotton. Bead cordage and tassel binding: 2s cotton. Tassels: 2s cotton. Beads: scleria/aku. Deer hoof nails. Price paid: 5 crn.
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: Pukobye
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431320-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length - Band
content: 100 cm
label: Width - Band
content: 7.5 cm