gourd dish
Object Details
- Notes
- One third, spoon shaped lagenaria gourd (ngokrat) with faded urucu and black paint decoration of 7 lines and dotted areas on top and bottom. Suspension cord covered with elongated red, green, orange, yellow plastic beads, strung through hole and anchored by orange bead. Pendants are 4 strands, each with 2 elongated beads and round yellow glass bead, each with dangling red macaw feather. Obtained from maker, 22 y/o female, Buco, for .75 crn. Purchased with #143. Collector says possible use as spoon or scoop. For more information see accession records type #35.
- Record Last Modified
- 2 Dec 2014
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Apinaye
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 24 Apr 2006
- Collection Date
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 400194
- USNM Number
- E431001-0
- Collector
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Donor Name
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Object Type
- Dish
- Length - Including Feather And Beads
- 29 cm
- Width
- 4.5 cm
- Place
- Marizinha, Timbira, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
- See more items in
- Anthropology
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8543790
