Headband
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: Woven palm fiber headband whose loose ends form the front tassel horns. Short parrot feathers attached at horns. Tail is formed by two shorter and two longer feather tassels attached by fiber string strung with scleria seeds. Feather shafts attached with wads of black resin. JCK collection. Obtained and made by unknown. Unused. Bug damage, detached tail feathers, front feathers should be vertical to band, break in band. Band: buriti frond interlaced, with horizontal horns, and vertical parrot feathers. Tail: aku beads on tucum cord; feathers are parrot and macaw attached with resin.
label: Notes
content: Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (4 blue wing fthrs), Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao (2 red tail fthrs); Yellow-headed Parrot, Amazona ochrocephala (5 multicolor tail fthrs).
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: E431109-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headband
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 70 cm
label: Width
content: 16 cm