Part of Ceremonial Costume: Back Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Jul 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Back ornament, called by the Indians 'tayo-ucunchi'. This is suspended from the head and hangs down the back. It consists of seven horizontal bands of the bleached leg bones of a bird called 'Tayo-ucunchi' (hence its name). This bird is said to be nocturnal in habits, frequenting caverns in the day time and flying abroad only after dark. It is probably a species of night heron. The horizontal bands have much the same effect as the bands of Dentalium shells of our north-western Indians. They are separated by lines of small hard black seed, called by the Indians 'muru-pisa', and the lower margin terminates in a fringe of monkey's teeth and metallic beetle's elytra."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aguaruna (Awajún) (?)
label: Culture
content: Jivaro (Shuar) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025958
label: USNM Number
content: E164684A-3
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Back Ornament