Headband
Object Details
- Notes
- Babassu frond headband, decorated with geometric designs in black and blue. The tail is a fiber string which ends in two feather tassels. Feathers are attached by fiber and 3 seeds. All feathers have tips cut off. The short upper feathers are red, green and blue. The other tassel is made of 2 short green and one long, red/blue macaw tail feather. Dr. Newton says maker unknown. Band: babassu flat frond, with black and blue painted markings. Tail: buriti cord with macaw and parrot feathers. Aku and cotton seed beads.
- Red-and-Green Macaw, Ara chloroptera (1 tail (red w/ distal blue)); Blue-crowned Parakeet, Aratinga acuticauda (1 tail (grn w/ distal blue)); Sun Parakeet, Aratinga solstitalis (3 tail (1grn, 2 grn/red)).
- Record Last Modified
- 2 Dec 2014
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Krikati
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 24 Apr 2006
- Collection Date
- 1964
- Accession Number
- 400194
- USNM Number
- E431110-0
- Collector
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Donor Name
- Dr. Dolores Newton
- Object Type
- Headband
- Length
- 114 cm
- Width
- 18 cm
- Place
- Sao Jose, Maranhao, Brazil, South America
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- Anthropology
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8544364
