The gift of birds
Subtitle: featherwork of native South American peoples
By: Ruben E. Reina and Kenneth M. Kensinger, editors
Contributors: Kensinger, Kenneth M.; University of Pennsylvania. University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: University Museum monograph -- 75
Publisher: The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Indians of South Americ; Social life and customs; Folklore; Featherwork; Feathers in art; Indian featherwork; Birds
Notes: Credits and brief biographies of contributors, p. 136-137.

Includes bibliographical references.

LC copy: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
Table of contents: title: Feather objects in culture / Ruben E. Reina; title: Why feathers? / Kenneth M. Kensinger; title: Ancient plumage : featherworking in precolumbian Peru / Kay L. Candler; title: An ancient Andean feathered headdress / Virginia Greene; title: Social and spiritual languages of feather art : the Bororo of Central Brazil / Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur; title: Feathers make us beautiful : the meaning of Cashinahua feather headdresses / Kenneth M. Kensinger; title: Fragments of the heavens : feathers as ornaments among the Waiwai / Catherine V. Howard; title: Feathers are for flying / Patricia J. Lyon; title: Feathers of blood & fire : the mythological origins of avian coloration / Jon F. Pressman; title: Crowns of power : bird and feather symbolism in Amazonian shamanism / Peter T. Furst; title: Harvesting feathers / Ruben E. Reina and Jon F. Pressman; title: Sources of feathers / Mark Robbins.