Shoes (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Oct 1907
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. U S N Holton C. Curl
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Called Kuditchi shoes [i.e. Kurdaitcha shoes] (see Spencer and Gillen, - Native fibers of Central Australia, p. 477, fig. 96, with references). Doctor Curl says they are made of emu feathers matted together with human blood. Used in ceremonial witchcraft and supposed to give the wearer power to kill his enemy (See Sydney Mus. Rep.). The tops are in various materials and colors of loose yarn "in coiled weaving of half hitches, without formation.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Central Australia, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 047861
label: USNM Number
content: E248086-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Feather Shoe