Scratching stick
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: Long, pointed stick. Commercial pink cotton thread covered with resin attaches remnants of feathers to the stick at the blunt end. Two feather tassels attached to top of stick. Pink hanging cord of commercial cotton. Dr. Newton says this was obtained from and made by A?tolo (Walter - Waldo) a 32 y/o male. He is a Xerente married to a Pukobye. The featherwork is bug-eaten. This is ceremonial scratcher, but it is not known if it was used. Gift. Associated specimens: collected with 1968-419a, a minature toy whistle.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (2 inner wing feathers); Red-legged Seriema, Cariama cristata (2 inner wing feathers).
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: E431405-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scratching Stick
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 53 cm