Sling
Object Details
- Notes
- Native cotton band woven with a diamond pattern in 2 rows, yellow colored (urucu root?) dye between diamond rows. Two tassels at each end also with yellow dye. Tassel strings alternate seeds and cane tubes. Dr. Newton says: made for use in the Krikati Wu?tu ceremony of 1973. Received at ceremony end by Yo?yo a Kraho, 40 y/o male. Yo?yo does not know who made it but opinions solicited independantly from women who were shown this sling follow: Kiyi?he says that she made the sling for Yo?yo for the ceremony, but it might not have been this one; Prednko says that Hukula (Maria de Jesus) 21 y/o female says that she made this sling, that it was her first attempt at weaving. It is exceptional that a male would be the post-ceremonial owner of a sling; in this case his status as Kraho guest (in 1973) in the community might explain his being allowed to keep a sling he received for the ceremony. I would think that more likely than his being given a different sling at the ceremony end, rather than a headband. (I do not know the likelihood of male ceremonial sling users being recipients of headband at its end.) This sling breaks the convention of putting one (probably the first) pendant at the beginning/end on the band. Used. Warp and weft: 2s cotton. Yellow paint. Bead cordage: 2z buriti. Tassels: 2z cotton with yellow paint. Beads: Ormosia seeds, large-medium red, reed segments. Price paid: 15crs.
- Record Last Modified
- 2 Dec 2014
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Krikati
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 24 Apr 2006
- Collection Date
- 1975
- Accession Number
- 400194
- USNM Number
- E431334-0
- Collector
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Donor Name
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Object Type
- Sling
- Length - Band
- 83 cm
- Width - Band
- 6 cm
- Place
- Sao Jose, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
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- Anthropology
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8543290
