Pocketbook
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: MAN'S SHOULDER BAG OR POCKETBOOK MADE OF INTERLACED BURITI. MADE OF CLOTH AND FIBER. RESIN SOAKED CLOTH POCKET SANDWICHED BETWEEN 2 SEAMLESS WOVEN POCKETBOOKS. ALL 3 ARE BOUND BY BURITI AROUND FRONT AND SIDE RIMS OF OPENING, AND AROUND FLAP. BINDING ON FRONT AND BACK OF BODY IS MAINLY DECORATIVE, THOUGH ONE OF 2 CONNECTIONS ON EITHER SIDE APPARENTLY SERVED AS STRAP ATTACHMENTS, AS SOME FRAYED FIBER IS STILL ATTACHED. NO FASTENER. COTTON STRING WOVEN IN BOTTOM OF OUTER BASKET ALONG BINDING. 2 BLACK-DYED WEFTS CREATE A BAND AROUND THE BODY, ABOUT 2 INCHES FROM THE BOTTOM. MADE BY THE SON OF MAI GRANDE, OBTAINED FROM MAE GRANDE. USED. 3 CRN. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR LINGUISTIC AND CENSUS INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Posto Montanha, Tucurui, Para, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gavioes
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E426735-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pocketbook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 17 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 10.5 cm