Native Name | Tadi Manakidi |
Object Number | 65-10-128 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Plant Fiber |
Description | "Shirt" Cape; Thick brown weft over thin, white, double strand warp; weaving alternated between plaiting (checkerboard) and twilling, producing angular lines in pattern; border white with two rows of pink enclosed by two rows (one on each side) of brown; shirt is seamed under armboles; neck slit in the weaving. Used in initiation rites. |
Length | 41.2 cm |
Width | 65.6 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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