knee band, pair
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: Woven cotton band with fringe and 2 tassels at each end. One tassel is made of cotton, the other is one cotton(?) seed cap with 2 feathers, one dark and one light. Cotton is covered in yellow urucu root. Dark feathers are clipped. Both a and b have same measurments. Dr. Newton says that these were obtained from and made by Amyokokrit, a 25 y/o female. Unused, with a broken strand on both feather pendants. One cotton seed is missing from the broken strand and the other held in place with white thread. Amyokokrit says they are worn with ties in front; said to have been intended for leg bands by maker, but she thought them too small, so she presented them as arm bands. Since they do conform to leg band size, they are classified as such here. The knee band is called hitechi, or ntechi. The knee band is 2z cotton, warp-faced plain weave; warp strands are left long, creating fringe; raw ends are flat finished with 2 rolls of self twining; strands from fringe used for pendants. A 3-element braid with attached 2s2z cotton tassel, string for cotton seed bead and to attach feathers, white, yellow and black parrot and macaw, bound with 2z tucum/caroa. Has an urucu stain. Price paid: 2 crn.
label: Notes
content: 1968 368a: Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao (1 blue/red wing feather); Red-billed Toucan, Ramphastos tucanus (2 yellow upper tail coverts, 1 black wing feathers). 1968 368b: Red-billed Toucan, Ramphastos tucanus (1 yellow upper tail covert, 1 black wing feather); Orange-winged Parrot, Amazona amazonica (1 green/blue/lback wing feather).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Krikati
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: E431295-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee band
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 56 cm
label: Width
content: 8 cm