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: SCARLET, GREEN-WINGED MACAW FEATHERS ANCHORED IN A HANDWOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. IDENTIFIED AS PUKANAR KAYAPO FROM THE STATE OF PARA ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. NO EVIDENCE OF USE PRIOR TO SALE TO FUNAI STORE RUN BY BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT. TAG INDICATES THAT THE ITEM ARRIVED AT THE FUNAI STORE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. THIS HEADDRESS IS ONE OF NINE CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHER IDENTIFICATION BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, NMNH DEPT. OF BIRDS, WHOSE REPORT IS IN THIS COLLECTION'S ACCESSION FILE. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA (TERVUREN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Para, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo, Pukanar
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: E426553-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 137 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 21.6 cm