knee cord, pair
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: Several strands of cotton braided together, and knotted about 10 cm from the end. Each strand end is threaded with 6 scleria seeds and irrgular white, tubular bead, and an irrgularly shaped black bead and a clam shell half. Cord is urucued. Fiber string through cord near knot fastens cord together. Dr. Newton says these were obtained from and made by Panti Alexandrina, a 72 y/o female. Unused, but has urucu stain. The knee cord with rattle ends is called me?konchi. The sea shell is called ngubre. The knee cord is 2z cotton with a 4 element braid (round cross-section), ends bound leaving tassle strands on the ends of which are pendnat materials, scleria/aku, white and black antique glass beads and seashells. The tie is 2z tucum/caroa. Price paid: 3 crn. For comparative information on this type see field number 1968-8 (E531291).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apinaye
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431292-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee cord
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 21 cm
label: Width
content: 10 cm