Basket, woman's mayaku burden basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1981 to 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket made from split bamboo, some dyed. Rim is round, bottom is square with interior wooden frame. Woven diamond pattern. 2 red cotton tassels, one at each corner. Rim is wrapped in split cane. Cotton binding just below rim. Cotton strings across the opening.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: All-purpose basket, carried exclusively by women and girls, for carrying loose items on top of the head, or for storing items at home. ESPECIALLY FINE SPECIMEN. Large twill-weave basket woven in two designs: (1) "top of the anaconda's head" design (walamá onéputáku), referring to Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), (2) kulúpiyené (referring to the lozenge shape of a fish the Mehinaku call kulupei and the Wauja call "ausityepe" (possibly Piaractus brachypomus or Metynnis argenteus), commonly called pacú in Brazilian Portuguese.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piyulaga village, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wauja (Waurá)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435229-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 47 cm
label: Width
content: 39.5 cm
label: Height
content: 18.25 cm