Basketry scoop for boiled pequi
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 12 Apr 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Long wood and basketry scoop made from a branch, using the Y-branch as the loop to which a basketry scoop is fastened by white cotton string binding.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: Basketry ladle used for scooping boiled pequi fruit out of large ceramic cooking pots. From attached field label: "made by Iyaku 4.12.83." This basket is "mulukúho [owl] (because of the 2 points, like an owl's horns. Actually, this basket has only one point. The other is mulukuho, says Iyaku." [presumably in reference to no. 98, E435261].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piyulaga village, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wauja (Waurá)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435258-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scoop
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 111 cm
label: Width
content: 21 cm
label: Height
content: 12 cm