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date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1964
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: 10 long (8 scarlet, 2 hyacinth) Macaw tail feathers, fastened to 2 cotton strings which tie into wearer's hair. One end of one string has bark fiber tied to it. One feather has long shaft wrapping. From village of Governador, from the Jean Carter Lave collection, August 1964. Dr. Newton says this is an occipital macaw Pukobye headdress. Base is 2z and 2s cotton cordage, wrapped, braided. Macaw tail feathers and small black feathers.
label: Notes
content: Hyacinth Macaw, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (2 blue tail feathers); Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (sev red/bl tip tail fthrs); Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao (1, poss 2 red tail); undetermined bird, unknown (3 black/irridescent body feathers).
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: Pukobye
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: E431094-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 52 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm