Arrows
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: PRICE PAID: UNSOLICITED GIFT. USE: WOMEN PARTICIPANTS IN CEREMONIAL GROUP, WAI'TOKROGATEYE, IN THE WU'TU CEREMONY, EACH CARRY A BUNCH OF ARROWS DURING THEIR CEREMONIAL APPEARANCE. THESE ARROWS HAVE BEEN USED IN THIS CAPACITY, SOME MAY HAVE HAD PRIOR USE. AMCU COLLECTED 2 ARROWS FROM EACH WOMAN. ARROWS WERE MADE BY A NUMBER OF MEN AND ARE A GOOD SAMPLE OF THE TRIBE. THERE ARE VARIOUS DECORATIVE TREATMENTS AND VARIOUS LENGTHS, RANGEING IS FROM 123 CMS. TO 162 CMS. THERE ARE TRACES OF URUCU ON SOME SHAFTS AND POINT ENDS, (FADED). BINDING OF PROXIMAL END OF FEATHERS IS TUCUM AND RESIN ON (I) AND (M). (A') AND (D') ARE BROKEN FROM BUG DAMAGE. IMBE IS LOOSE ON (L), (T), (C'), (F'), AND (G'). (A') HAS FEATHER IMBE REGLUED, AND (C) HAS A DETACHED FEATHER. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR A DETAILED LIST OF ALL 34 ARROWS. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR CENSUS AND LINGUISTIC INFORMATION. MADE BY AMCU 40 Y/O MALE
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Nov 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 37
place: label: Place
content: Governador, Timbira, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pukobye
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: E426208-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Length - Object
content: 123 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 162 cm