Pocketbook
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: OLD AND UNUSUAL; TRAPEZOIDAL. ESSENTIALLY 2 BASKETS WITH OPEN BOTTOMS SANDWICHING A CLOTH BAG. BASKETS ARE BOUND TOGETHER AT THE FLAP AND EDGE WITH BOUND CORDING, MADE BY WRAPPING FIBERS WITH ANOTHER FIBER. CORDING CONTINUES DOWN SIDES OF THE BASKET. THE LITTLE SIDE FLAPS ARE BOUND AND SO IS THE FRONT RIM. THE BINDING CROSSES BELOW SIDE FLAPS AND IS NOT ATTACHED THERE, BUT FORMS LOOPS TRHOUGH WHICH THE STRAP PASSES. PATTERN: STRIPES CREATED BY GROUPS OF 3 BLACK DYED WEFTS RUNNING AROUND BODY ACROSS THE FLAP. CHEVRONS WOVEN INTO BASKET BETWEEN 2 FRONT BLACK STRIPES. TAN 4-HOLE 9/16" BUTTON SEWN ON FRONT OF FLAP. 7" CORD TIED AROUND BOTTOM FRONT CORD TO FASTEN AROUND BUTTON. CRUDELY WOVEN COTTON STRAP PASSES TRHOUGH SIDE LOOPS THEN EACH PASSES UNDER A BOTTOM LOOP AND IS DOUBLED BACK ON ITSELF AND TIED WITH FIBER. PATTERN IN STRAP IS ALTERNATING WEAVING WITH SECTION OF JUST WARP, THE WEFT WRAPPED TOGETHER AROUND THE BACK TO BEGIN THE NEXT SET OF WEAVING 1 CM DOWN. MAN'S SHOULDER BAG OF INTERLACED BURITI, CALLED A PAPRE. MADE BY AN UNIDENTIFIED GAVIAO MALE, NOT MAE GRANDE'S SON. DONOR UNKNOWN. USED. 3 CRN. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR LINGUISTIC AND CENSUS INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Posto Montanha, Tucurui, Para, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gavioes
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: E426734-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pocketbook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 17 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5.5 cm