Belt skirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Belt skirt made off recycled cloth band with stripes of various colors. End braided and tasseled. Netting skirt which consists of strand covered with quills, gray and ormosia seeds. Netting ends in feather tassels and fiber strings. Dr. Newton says that this was obtained from and made by Krekame, a 33 y/o female. Made for sale. It is called "saia" which is Portuguese for skirt. In Krikati it is called chuga?te, "Everyone here knows how to make, but are just too lazy" (in answer to question of why there are no more examples of this type.) The Guajajara are a likly source for a prototype. The band is a recylced strip taken from a commercial hammock. The bead cord is 2z tucum/caroa. Beads are Job's tears, small red/black ormosia, cotton seed, porcupine quills and feathers. (See expert remarks) See photograph B34.31, which shows Auki modeling a similar belt skirt. Price paid: 25 crs.
label: Notes
content: Rufescent Tiger-Heron (immature) Tigrisoma lineatum rust and olive green body feathers Chicken Gallus gallus domesticus wing coverts brown w/ rusty undetermined Parrot, Family Psittacidae (one green feather & one red Macaw feather); Gray-necked Wood-Rail, Aramides cajanea (few rust feathers and olive green feathers); White-tailed Trogon, Trogon viridis (1 blue/green irridescent feather); undetermined bird, unknown (misc. blue/black irridescent feathers).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Krikati
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431237-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 107 cm
label: Width
content: 22 cm