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: HYACINTH, BLUE AND YELLOW, AND SCARLET MACAW FEATHERS ANCHORED IN A WOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. IDENTIFIED AS MENTUKTIRE KAYAPO FROM THE XINGU IN THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. THE SPECIMEN SHOWS NO EVIDENCE OF PRIOR USE AND WAS PROBABLY MADE FOR SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT RUN FUNAI STORE. ITS TAG INDICATES THAT IT ARRIVED AT THE STORE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. THIS ITEM IS ONE OF 9 KAYAPO FEATHERED HEADDRESSES CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHER IDENTIFICATION ARE BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, MNHN DEPT OF BIRDS WHOSE REPORT IS INCLUDED IN THE ACCESSION PAPERS. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM OF 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: Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo, Mentuktire
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: E426555-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 92 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm