Drinking Horn With Tin Funnel "Xulub Vakax", Funnel "Burne"
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: COW HORN USED TO HOLD DISTILLED CANE LIQUOR BY PARTICIPANTS IN PRE-LENTEN CARNIVAL CELEBRATION "TAJIMOLTIK" AND AT OTHER FIESTAS DURING THE YEAR. LARGE END OF HORN COVERED WITH A FLAT WOODEN OVAL FASTENED TO HORN BY BRASS TACKS. NARROW END CLOSED BY A WOODEN STOPPERWITH A RECTANGULAR HANDLE THAT HAS A HOLE THROUGH IT, FOR ATTACHMENT OF STRING TIED AROUND HORN. A FLAT DEERSKIN STRAP IS TIED THROUGH A METAL RING AT THE WIDE END OF HORNAND KNOTTED AROUND NARROW END. TIN FUNNEL, 8CM L., AND 5.8CM DIAM., TIED THROUGH ITS HANDLE BY A STRING ATTACHED TO NARROW END OF HORN. MADE IN 1970.
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: E423109-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drinking Horn
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 35 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 23 cm