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: Length of cotton cord with 5 bead and feather pendants at each end and 22 feather, bead and deer hoof tips pendants along the length. These pendants are each made of a feather topped with a deer hoof tips. Above that are beads of seed (7), plastic or glass, both faceted and smooth, followed by cylindrical white beads that are possibly spondulus shell. Final bead is glass tube. Dr. Newton says that these were obtained from Salomao a 50 y/o male. They were made by unknown. Used, sold as an incomplete set without the pair of long cords. Cord is square cordage (cross section) made from a single strand (crochet). Cord is 2z cotton, but B possibly 2s cotton. Bead and pendant string is 2z tucum/caroa. Pendants are antique glass beads, white black and dark blue (wood?), glass beads and deer nails/hoofs, and macaw and parrot feathers. Price paid: 5 crn.
label: Notes
content: Yellow-headed Parrot, Amazona ochrocephala (2 green/red/yellow tail feathers;red on both sides of rachis); Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao (*Tapirage altered; body and wing feathers red/yellow
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera red tufts; *possibly tapirage ).
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431287-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee cord
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 43 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm