Breech Cloth

SA343F

From: Brazil (uncertain) | Guiana (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number SA343F
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Waiwai
Provenience Brazil (uncertain) | Guiana (uncertain)
Culture Area Amazonia
Section American
Materials Cotton | Macaw Feather | Seed | Glass
Description

Woven bands of brown cotton decorated with feathers, etc. Sash with badly damaged/eaten feather work. Wearer's front fringe - remains of what may have been macaw feathers. Back end fringe is yellow/orange/blue macaw. Central sash fringe is short and of red/pink/white/blue beads and seeds. Front of sash is shortened or folded and basted to reduce length.

Credit Line Amazonian Expedition, William C. Farabee, 1916

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