Sling
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: Cotton band woven with a diamond pattern of two red stripes woven with commercial cotton. Three tassels at one end and 4 at the other. Tassels made of native cotton. Tassel strings alternating large and small beads. Anchor at 4 tassel-end is a scleria seed, and at 3-tassel end, a large black plastic bead. Dr. Newton says: made for use in the Krikati Wu?tu ceremony of 1973. Ceremony user was Tebhot (Waldesi) a 12 y/o male. Received at the end of the ceremony by Pankru (Carmozinha) a 17 y/o female. Obtained from Pankru, made by Pro?kui. Used. One bead strand probably lost in use. Warp: 2s cotton and commercial cotton, red. Weft: 2s cotton and commercial cotton, white and pink. Bead cordage: 2z tucum/caroa. Tassels: 2s cotton. 1 scleria/aku, glass or plastic beads. Price paid: 40 crs. Other specimens attributed to Pro?kui are 23, 138, and 234.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E431333-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length - Band
content: 88 cm
label: Width - Band
content: 6 cm