Headband with horns
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: Babassu headband covered with a woven imbe coverwork in a geometric pattern. Horn is layered babassu frond. Tail consists of 2 cotton strings, each holding 3 sets of multi-colored feathers. One string ends in a cotton tassel instead. Dr. Newton says this was obtained from Orlando Pruri, a 29 y/o male. Made by him and his wife Amyokokrit, a 29 y/o female who made the tail cord. Unused, but the tail braid cord is recycled from another artifact. Headband is called e?krunku. Horns are called he?kruncu. Single element square braid is called kanukohi. Band: babassu and imbe, woven mosaic with horn. Tail: 2s cotton, made into cord of single element square braid. Plastic beads, cotton seed beads, feathers, macaw and parrot, cotton tassel of 2s cordage. Price paid: 1 crn.
label: Notes
content: Orange-winged Parrot, Amazona amazonica (7 multicolored green/orange/yellow tail and wing feathers): Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao (3 blue/red and blue/yellow large feathers).
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: 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: E431123-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headband
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 111 cm
label: Width
content: 117 cm