Head Cloth "Pok'"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Sep 1986
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Walter F. Morris Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Robert M. Laughlin
notes: label: Notes
content: SQUARE OF WHITE COMMERCIAL CLOTH, MACHINE HEMMED ON TWO EDGES, ONE IN WHITE AND ONE IN RED. ONE SELVAGE EDGE HAS A RED THREAD RUNNING THROUGH IT. FOUR CORNERS DECORATED WITH RED TASSELS MADE OF EMBROIDERY THREAD. TASSELS ATTACHED TO SCARF BY ELABORATELY CROCHETED DESIGN WORN UNDER MONKEY HAT AS PART OF MONKEY COSTUME DURING PRE-LENTEN CARNIVAL CELEBRATION "TAJIMOLTIK" AND AT OTHER FIESTAS DURING THE YEAR. MADE IN 1977.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tzotzil Maya, Chamula
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 359007
label: USNM Number
content: E423099-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Head Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 81 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 80 cm