Headdress
44-3-1
From: Brazil | Para State | Tapajos River Region
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 44-3-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mundurucu |
| Provenience | Brazil | Para State | Tapajos River Region |
| Culture Area | Amazonia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Scarlet Macaw Feather | Blue-and-Yellow Macaw Feather | White-necked Heron Feather | Toucan Feather | Cotton |
| Description | Man's. Of feathers. Hemispherical cap of close netted cotton cord; covered with yellow feathers; plume of gray feathers at top. Three pendant strings of yellow feathers tipped with black at sides. At back hangs a layer of long macaw feathers overlaid by a layer of shorter macaw feathers--blue or red, tipped with black. Feathers from Scarlet Macaw, Blue-and-yellow Macaw, White-necked Heron, and toucan. |
| Height | 25 cm |
| Length | 50 cm |
| Width | 25 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Frank S. Stone, 1943 |
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