Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Aug 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 1940
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Jose Cuatrecasas Arumi
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Elaborate necklace with 2 macaw wings, 9 birdskins (1 with feet attached, 1 with 1 wing and tail), 1 section of a bird, 4 separate feathers, string of beetle wings attached to necklace. Two of the red bird skins have sticks as braces. Four toucan bills attached by thin thread to basic necklace. Seeds are interspersed among hanging pieces. Three of the 9 birdskins are toucan breasts.
label: Notes
content: Traded to Dr. Cuatrocasas by Cofan Indians in 1940.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Putumayo River, Colombia, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cofán
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2041708
label: USNM Number
content: E431868-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 60 cm
label: Width
content: 48 cm
label: Height
content: 4 cm