Sling
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: Large native cotton band with woven pattern of chains within diamonds. Ten tassels still attached at each end. One side has two tassel strings with no tassels. The other side has one broken tassel string with tassel. All tassel strings have some tubular beads. Six strings have large, dark blue beads. Two strings have big, pink plastic beads. Several strings incoporate mostly seeds. Two have deer hoof tips. According to Laurie Burgess, the blue beads are vitreous, not stone. Dr. Newton says: may have been made for use in the Pukbye Wu?tu ceremony, before 1968. Obtained from Roptut, Yuthut (Maria Grossa) 32 y/o female. Maker unknown. Used. Warp and weft: 2s cotton. Urucu residue on band and tassels, suggests both have similar age -- before 1968. Bead cordage is 2z tucum/caroa. Tassel binding: 2s cotton. Tassels: 2s and 2z cotton. Seed beads, scleria/aku, Job's tears, ormosia/ large, medium red. Unidentified elongated brown seed. Glass or plastic beads, antique glass beads, white. Deer hoof nails. Price paid: 5 crn.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pukobye
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431324-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sling
physicalDescription: label: Length - Band
content: 119 cm
label: Width - Band
content: 9 cm