Necklace
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: Broken string of Job's Tears seed. Four loose peccary teeth and 15 loose Job's Tears. Dr. Newton says this was collected in the Apinaye village of Mariazinha. It was obtained from and made by Amjuk, a 35 y/o female. This is to be worn when you are all hot with malaria; others earlier said the teeth would be burned and drunk in water. Cord is broken. 16 beads and 3 teeth detached. Cordage is 2s tucum. Beads: Job's Tears, rubber/plastic tubular, shiny brown seed and plastic/wood bead. Peccary teeth. Price paid: 2 crn.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apinaye
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431153-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace