Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Aug 2001
label: Collection Date
content: November 29, 1993
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William Crocker
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: BELT WITH BEAD PENDANTS BEHIND, OR ACAA. WORN DURING AN INTERNMENT FESTIVAL. MADE IN 1977 BY PIAPIT, BUT MUCH RENEWED, PROBABLY BY TA?PA'S WIFE. AFTER THE KROWATI RACE IN THE KEETUWAYE OR PEBYE FESTIVAL, ACAA'S WERE GIVEN TO A MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITE MOIETY BY THE ELDERS. TA?PA WAS A COMMANDANT OF THE INTIATING NOVICE GROUP. THIS ACCA IS MADE OF COMMERICAL COTTON, TUCUM FIBER CORD, 18 BRAZILIAN COINS, DEER HOOF TIPS, AND GREEN, BLUE, RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, WHITE, PINK, CLEAR, BLACK AND CLEAR GREEN GLASS BEADS. MANY-STRANDS OF TUCUM CORDSARE STRUNG TOGETHER, THE ENDS ARE TIED OFF WITH COMMERICAL COTTON CORDAGE, WITH BLUE AND WHITE COMMERICAL COTTON TASSELS. THE CENTER BAND IS ENCIRCLED WITH FINE RED CORDAGE AND THEN COVERED WITH GREEN, BLACK, YELLOW, RED, BLUE AND WHITE GLASS BEADS. THE COINS AND DEER HOOF TIPS ARE SUSPENDED ON STRINGS OF BEADS WHICH ARE STRUNG ON THE FINE RED CORDAGE FROM UNDER THE BEAD NETTING. NOT URUCUED. PURCHASE PRICE: CR$15.000,00.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Escalvado, Timbira, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Canela
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416179
label: USNM Number
content: E428241-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt