Singing Sash And Wristlets
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Aug 2001
label: Collection Date
content: November 29, 1993
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William Crocker
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Diagonal tasseled singing sash or hahi, and 2 tasseled wristlets, called paa-tsee, used by girls in sing-dancing. Generally these are named, urucued and given to the girl. These were made for Carolina Hohhoc for singing well. Made from commercial cotton, red and blue glass beads, tucum fiber cord, urucu and elastic banding. Sash is a circular band of woven cotton (no ties) has two large tassels at either end, each made of 12 cotton tassels tied to beaded strings with tucum fiber. All cotton is urucued. The paa-tsee are lengths of commercial elastic which have cotton tassels wrapped with tucum and fastened to short blue beaded strings fastened to the ends. A band of commercial cotton is threaded twice through each end of the elastic to create a stretchy wristlet.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jun 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Escalvado, Timbira, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Canela
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416179
label: USNM Number
content: E428239-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sash