Native Name | Pauti |
Object Number | 65-10-85 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Feather | Wood | Cord | Grass | Squirrel Fur |
Description | White and grey mottled harpy eagle feathers, notched almost to tip; quilll end inserted in wood wrapped with black waxed and white cord and razor grass; small red feathers and squirrel fur bound at join; white and black notched paujil (wild turkey) feather, two small red and blue notched parrot feathers attached to top of large feathers with wax. Used by men in fertility rites. |
Length | 64.6 cm |
Width | 8.1 cm |
Outside Diameter | 1.2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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