knee cord, 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: Two braided cords with tasseled ends. Ends of tassels are strung with glass and plastic beads and tipped by deer hoof tips. Dr. Newton says these were obtained from and made by Toim, a 64 y/o male and Filomena Kamberi-krambo, a 60 y/o female. Unused. These are worn under the knees with the pendant at back of the leg; tied on the front of the leg and then turned to the back. Filomena explains that it has a nice sound when used to run with logs. Names that go with this (these) are Pioku and Azodnmu, her son Perminio has these names. Two others in the village also have this name, Kanch (Wachum) a man already married, and Kirina, a "rapaz". Only the owner of the name can use this. A "tia" makes this for a "rapaz". Other names have other kinds of enfeites. Toim starts to say "capacete" but then remembers that this is something which is a companheiro of the knee cords. Filomina notes that they could make it {a capacete bmw?} but they don't have the feathers. They use the feathers of papagaio, gaviao, and sariema. The capacete is called meaku?granchu?ti. Toim gestures it would seem that the feathers go around the crown of the head. He calls the knee cord with rattle ends me?konchi, some one else calls it me?pre (probably assuming it was a necklace), the 6 strand braid is kangubodi. The knee cord is 2z cotton, the 6 element braid with a semi-circular cross-section ends bound leaving tassle strands on the ends of which are pendant materials: glass or plastic beads, deer hoofs/nails. One tassel strand on each end serves as a tie. Toim does the braiding of cord, tying group of strands to a door post. Newton field photo: bw B11.15. Filomena prepares length of strands by wrapping around her big toes several times. Price paid: 3crn.
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: Apinaye
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: E431291-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee cord
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 49 cm
label: Width
content: 11 cm