Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
notes: label: Notes
content: NINE HYACINTH MACAW, ONE BLUE AND ONE YELLOW MACAW, ALL OTHERS SCARLET MACAW FEATHERS IN COTTON BINDING, WHICH IS POSSIBLY OF NATIVE MANUFACTURE. IDENTIFIED AS PUKANUR KAYAPO FROM THE STATE OF PARA ON THE FUNAI STORE TAG. TAGS INDICATE THAT THIS SPECIMEN ARRIVED AT THE GOVERNMENT RUN FUNAI STORE BEFORE THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT CHANGED CURRENCIES ON JULY 1, 1994. THIS ITEM IS ONE OF 9 KAYAPO FEATHER HEADDRESSES FROM BRAZIL CONFISCATED BY THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BECAUSE THE FEATHERS ON SOME HEADDRESSES ARE FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES. ALL FEATHER IDENTIFICATIONS ARE BY ROXIE LAYBOURNE, NMNH DEPT. OF BIRDS. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE KAIAPO, AMAZONIA, THE ART OF BODY DECORATION EDITED BY GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER, ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA (TERVUREN) SNOECK-DUCAJU & ZOON, GENT 1982.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Para, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kayapo, Pukanur
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409933
label: USNM Number
content: E426549-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 138 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 27.3 cm