Bandolier
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: Small bandolier made of 4 strings, strung with Job's tears (pale gray, shiny seeds). Strings meet about 10 cm from the ends, passing and joining in a series of blue and white plastic beads. Four tassel ends strung with scleria and Job's tears, end in white plastic beads, clam shell and red feathers. Dr. Newton says this was collected in the Apinaye village of Mariazinha. It was obtained from and made by Bucuk Helena, a 17 y/o female. Used? Damage: insect holes in Job's Tears. Called an Arape. Cordage is 2z tucum/caroa. Beads: Job's Tears, scleria/acu, glass or plastic, sea shells, macaw feathers. Photograph: bw B12.22. a 6 y/o girl models the bandolier. Price paid: beads. Associated specimen: purchased with 104.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (various body: 1 blue, 1 blue/yellow and several red).
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: Apinaye
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431202-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bandolier
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 43 cm
label: Width
content: 8 cm