Bead patch belt
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: Two strands of cotton cord with alternating tubular plastic beads and gray seeds strung between them. The ends have fiber tassels built up around them. Bead and seed patch (pendant) is fastened to where the two ends overlap. Covered with urucu? Dr. Newton says this was obtained from and made by Perminio Txo-kaoc, a 31 y/o male. Unused. This is a belt for a young girl, usually made by her mother. Nobody here wears this anymore, but in the old time, girls would wear it all the time and only take it off at night and to bathe, then put it on again in the morning. This belt is called pitu me?pre. The square braided cord is called kangumbudi. Pendant is called amblech. Tassel is ukruncho. Rosa Laranja Panti, a 25 y/o female during a later visit comments on this piece referring to it initially as mekradi, but then correting herself to say it is me?pre and further that mekradi is a belt of imbira (Port.) and has no beads. Belt consists of a square braid cord, each cord made from a single strand of 2s cotton with beads set between the cords. urucu stained. Cordage for pendants and belt inset bead work is 2z tucum/caroa. Beads: Job's Tears, Panti calls them conta de capim, in Apinaye it is kencho. Rubber/plastic tubular beads. Tassel: tucum. Price paid: 2.50 crn. Purchased with 1968-7.
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: E431224-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 33 cm
label: Width
content: 6 cm