hammock
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Obtained from Kapekui, a 16 y/o female and Hucurm, a 15 y/o male. Made by a Guajajara living near the the Pukobye village, one of two purchased by this family for "100 crs. each". Used by a married couple. Price paid: exchanged for a commercial hammock.
label: Notes
content: The twined cotton hammock is the only kind made for use in the household of the Krikati and Pubokye (and, through trade or incidendal imitation, the Apinaye); this is the form described here. I did collect a single example of a braided, buriti frond hammock from the Apinaye (1968:83) (SI E431025) the only hammock not of cotton that I observed or collected from any of these tribes. The information about frond hammocks, given on that specimen sheet, suggests that this form of hammock is a novelty item among these Timbira. Cotton for these Timbira-made hammocks is grown in their gardens and processed by makers themselves or their kin. Cotton cordage is always 2-ply. The weft (transverse) strands enclose 2 warp (longitudinal) strands in each twined crossing; the same two warps are kept together from one transverse to the next. Hammock was made without scale lines. A suspension rope is inserted into each of the end loops formed by the warp strands. For more information, see accession file.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Maranhao, 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: E431032-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hammock
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 220 cm
label: Width
content: 80 cm