Necklace
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: Necklace of Job's Tears interspersed with tubular quill beads. Pendant of 3 long, yellow and tiny red feathers attached to strand with seeds. Dr. Newton says this was obtained from and made by Sipamdu Maria Jose a 31 y/o female. She has a tatoo on her left upper arm and front teeth are filed to points. She made it for herself "yesterday" and says it is for a man or woman, but a man would wear it in an other way. ? with feathers down the back? She calls the neclace meokreci. The yellow feathers are called peyati. Porcupine is kroi. Cordage is 2s cotton. Beads are Job's Tears, Scleria/aku, cotton, and porcupine quill segments. There is a glass bead. Long yellow feathers, maybe Macaw? (See expert remarks) Price paid: 1 crn. Photo B7.18. Daughter of maker models this necklace.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (3 red body feathers); Green Oropendola, Psarocolius viridis (3 yellow tail 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: 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: E431140-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 37 cm
label: Width
content: 6 cm