gourd dish
Object Details
- Notes
- One half a cleaned crescentia gourd with blackened interior; rim edge is excised. Suspension cord attached through hold with dowel-like plug. Two ply bead string holds pendant of two strings of Job's tears (croix lacrima), beads and red and green macaw feathers. Obtained from maker, a 25 y/o male, Pluri, who was helped by his wife. Cost was 100 crs, purchased with #135 MN39770 () Unused. For more information see accession records type #35.
- Feathers identified by Carla Dove, Museum Specialist, and Marcy Heacker, Research Assistant, SI NMNH Division of Bird Feather identification lab. Ara chloroptera: 5 body feathers (4 multicolor, 1 red)
- Record Last Modified
- 7 May 2019
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Krikati
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 24 Apr 2006
- Collection Date
- 1964
- Accession Number
- 400194
- USNM Number
- E430991-0
- Collector
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Donor Name
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Object Type
- Dish
- Length - Including Feathers, But Not Cord
- 19 cm
- Width
- 5 cm
- Place
- Sao Jose, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
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- Anthropology
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8543780
