Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
notes: label: Notes
content: HYACINTH, BLUE AND YELLOW, SCARLET MACAW FEATHERS ANCHORED IN WOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. IDENTIFIED AS MENTUKTIRE, FROM THE XINGU IN THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. TAG INDICATES THAT THIS ITEM ARRIVED AT THE FUNAI STORE BEFORE THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT CHANGED THE CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF PRIOR USE, COULD HAVE BEEN MADE FOR SALE AT THE FUNAI STORE RUN BY THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT. THIS ITEM IS ONE OF 9 KAYAPO FEATHER HEADDRESSES CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE SOME OF THE FEATHERS ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHER IDENTIFICATIONS BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, NMNH DEPT. OF BIRDS, WHOSE REPORT IS IN THE ACCESSION RECORDS. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM OF CENTRAL AFTICA (TERVUREN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT, 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo, Mentuktire
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409933
label: USNM Number
content: E426551-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 185 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 30 cm