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: Native cotton band woven with a lateral diamond pattern. Diamonds are quite small. Six tassels at each end. Tassel strings strung with small, dark seeds. Anchor seed is large and gray. Little threads are tied in some strings. Dr. Newton says: made for use in the Krikati Wu?tu ceremony of 1973? For Cu?kui, a 14 y/o female. Received at ceremony end by Kunyanser, a 22 y/o female. Obtained from same. Made by Amyokokrit, 36 y/o female. Amyokokrit made the sling for Juvenal, a 27 y/o Pukobye male, but he could not pay, so she sold it to Cu?kui, who was in the Kroahu ceremonial group as the Filha da Kroahu, a female mascot for a male group. Used. Damage: 4 pendant bead strands broken by bugs, repair made to keep beads--in each case original strand is left long and repair strand of cotton covered polyester thread is cut short. Warp and weft: 2s cotton. Pendants: probably substituted for glass beads for purpose of sale. Commercial thread. Tassels: 2s cotton. Beads: small brown, black wrinkled, Job's Tears. Price paid: 40 crs.
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: E431338-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 96 cm
label: Width - Band
content: 6 cm