knee band, pair
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: Woven cotton band with a raised warp design of diamonds. Fringe-tassels on each end. A fiber tie is threaded through the band just before the tassels. With the addition of one feather and one seed top, each of these ends becomes another tassel. Each fringe-tassel also has a bead string and feather tassel. Dr. Newton says these were obtained from Choikru, a 17 y/o male. Made by Hukula, a 37 y/o female. Used. They were made for Choikru to use following a period of seclusion after he was bitten by a snake in late 1964. Some feathers are fragmented. The raised warp design is called he?huk, or he?huktoh. The knee band is 2z cotton, warp faced plain weave with raised warp design; warp ends left long and bound to form tassels. Pendant materials from tie ends and on band: glass seed beads and a variety of feather head bead: medium sized tan, smooth seed, cotton seed, caititu? or deer hoof/nails, and feathers, parrot and other blue? The bead string, combined tie strands and binding are 2z tucum caroa. A dyed warp marks the midline, a signiture mark of this weaver, Hukula. Price paid: beads. Associated specimens: manner of use can be informed by field number 1968-368.
label: Notes
content: 1968 188 a&b: Orange-winged Parrot, Amazona amazonica (6 orange/green/red tail feathers); Orange-winged Parrot, Amazona amazonica (1 green/blue/black wing feather;2 orange/green/yellow tail); Turquoise-fronted Parrot, Amazona aestiva (2 red/yellow/green tail feathers); undetermined Parrot, Amazona sp. (blue).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Krikati
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: E431294-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee band
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 30 cm
label: Width
content: 16 cm