Pair of knee cords
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: A is long cotton strand that holds 25 bead pendants with deer hoof tips and red/yellow/green feathers. Each end holds 4 tiny bead and feather tufts. B fits same description except differening with 24 bead pendants and 5 bead and feather tufts at ends. Note: An end strand is missing. Dr. Newton says these were obtained from Amjuk, a 48 y/o female. They were made by Amjuk, who did the bead work, and her mother Ireti, a 70 y/o female, who made the cord. Used by Amjuk, when they all lived in the Botica village. This was sold as an incomplete set without the pair of long cords. Knee cord with feather pendants is me?kai. The square cordage (cross section); seller says her mother who made the cord did it with 4 strands, but I cannot comfirm this; cord ends have the same 5 ends of beadwork as those made from single strand (crochet). [1 cotton strand end + 4 beadwork strand ends from 2 added lengths of tucum = 5]. Seller says she herself cannot make a cord with 4 strands, only with one. Cord is 2z cotton, bead cord and tie is 2z tucum/caroa, and the pendants are glass beads, deer nails/hoof, and macaw feathers. Price paid: 5 crn.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sao Jose, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apinaye
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400194
label: USNM Number
content: E431286-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knee cord
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 40 cm
label: Width
content: 29 cm