Feather Headdress "Pejatijamy"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
notes: label: Notes
content: SCARLET MACAW AND GREEN OROPENDOLA FEATHERS, WHICH ARE ACTUALLY YELLOW, ANCHORED IN A WOVEN COTTON HEADBAND. IDENTIFIED AS A PEIOTI-IAMUR BELONGING TO A KAYAPO MAN NAMED JOAO CONGO, USED BY MEN IN RITUALS ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. URUCU STAINS ON HEADBAND INDICATE PRIOR USE. DESCRIBED IN VERSWIJVER AS A PEJATIJAMY, A CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS USED IN MEN'S CEREMONIES AND WORN AS A PRIVILEGE BY MEN OF A PARTICULAR RESIDENTIAL GROUP. THIS ITEM ARRIVED AT THE FUNAI STORE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCY ON JULY 1, 1994. ONE OF 9 KAYAPO FEATHER HEADDRESSES CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHER IDENTIFICATIONS ARE BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, NMNH DEPT. OF BIRDS WHOSE REPORT IS INCLUDED IN THE ACCESSION PAPERS. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO AMAZONIA THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM OF CENTRAL AFRICA (TERVUREN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT, 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409933
label: USNM Number
content: E426556-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 88 cm