Knee cord
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: Commercial covered cordage, red with 4 beaded pendants at either end. Thirty two feather pendants with seed tops, scleria seeds and beads. Dr. Newton says this was obtained from and made by Rosa Laranja Panti, a 25 y/o female. Unused. A mother makes this for her daughter, and in old times the cord would have been tucum. One of the original pair collected is missing/stolen. Feathered knee cord is called me?kai gapi?nochu. Bead ends on the cord are krunco. The generic term for feather pendants is punpru, literally, macaw. The cord is a tubular strand of a red commercial material, maybe rayon? The bead cord is 2z tucum/caroa. The pendants are cotton seed, kachuru or kachudu, scleria/aku or angu, glass beads, antique glass beads, feathers, parrot, which is kurui, gaviao with gray stripes, known anjukti, and gaviao with brown stripes, known as kwupru?ti. Newton field photo, color slide B7.15. Rosa wears this pair of knee cords with feather pendants. Price paid: 2.5 crn.
label: Notes
content: 1968 12a:Orange-winged Parrot, Amazona amazonica (14 green/blue/black/orange wing feathers); Savannah Hawk, Buteogallus meridionalis (11 brown/black barred wing feathers); Gray-headed Kite, Leptodon cayanensis (6 gray/black barred wing 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: E431285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee cord
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 31 cm
label: Width
content: 16 cm