Basket, woman's mayaku burden basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1981 to 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket made from split bamboo, some dyed. Rim is round, bottom is square with interior wooden frame. Woven diamond pattern. Four cotton tassels, one at each corner. Rim is wrapped in cotton. Cotton binding just below rim. Cotton strings cross across the opening.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: All-purpose basket, carried exclusively by women and girls, for carrying loose items on top of the head, or for storing items at home. Small twill-weave basket. Probably woven in either kulúpiyené or walamá onéputáku designs. (Depends on whether the black dot is considered sufficient for walamá onéputáku.)
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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435232-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 39 cm
label: Width
content: 37.5 cm
label: Height
content: 17.25 cm