Bead patch belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Dolores Newton
notes: label: Notes
content: Belt made of 9 strands of native cotton, with green commercial cotton wrapped at 4 points. Bead patch (pendant) made of red, and wrinkled black seeds, ending in 16 feather dangles. Feathers are green, blue, and red. Two red feather pendants attached to the belt opposite the patch (top). Looks as if cotton dyed with urucu root. Dr. Newton says this was obtained from and made by Yonte, a 34 y/o female. Unused. Belt consists of 2s cotton strands, yellow dyed, in 5 continuous loops. Cordage is commerical green string and some 2z cotton. Beads: small brown/black wrinkled, small ormosia. Macaw and parrot feathers. Price paid: 8 crs.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (several body and wing coverts ?light blue).
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: Krikati
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431235-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 38 cm
label: Width
content: 19 cm