knee bands, pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Two bands of grey Job's tears seeds attached with 4 short sections of quill strung horizontally between the seeds. At either end of both strands there are two black seeds attached to which are feather tufts. Attached to one side of bead strand are 6 dangles of seeds and feathers. Dr. Newton says that these were obtained from Krekame, a 33 y/o woman. Made by Yodle, a 9 y/o female. Unused, made for sale. Knee band called he?techi. Knee band beadwork is of porcupine quills (espin de cuandu) and Job's Tears. Pendants of cotton seeds, small brown/black wrinkled seeds, small red/black ormosia, several kinds of feathers, including parrot and macaw. Bead string and feathers bound with 2z tucum/caroa. Price paid: 10 crs.
label: Notes
content: 1975-20a: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (many red and green body feathers): Rufescent Tiger-Heron (immature), Tigrisoma lineatum (3 black & buffy barred body feathers); Campo Flicker, Colaptes campestris (1 black/white barred tail feather); White-tipped Dove, Leptoptila verreauxi (1 dark tail feather w/ white tip); Snowy Egret, Egretta thula (1 white feather). 1975-20b: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (many red body feathers); Rufescent Tiger-Heron (immature), Tigrisoma lineatum (many barred black/buff or black/white body feathers); Campo Flicker, Colaptes campestris (1 fine black/white barred tail covert); Snowy Egret, Egretta thula (few white w/ peach tinge body feathers); undetermined Parrot, Amazona sp. (2 bright green feathers); Chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus (1 brown w/ buff edge feather); White-tailed Trogon, Trogon viridis (1 black edge/white barring tail feather).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Krikati
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431296-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee band
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 40 cm
label: Width
content: 19 cm