Cap
- Museum number:
- 16-9824
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21160009824
- Alternate number:
- 37 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.1810
- Description:
- Woven cotton cap ("Yume Maiti"); white ground with blue and reddish designs elements; 9 3/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches.
- Donor:
- Kenneth M. Kensinger and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Rio Curanja, Ucayali Region, Central Peru
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Peru
- Culture or time period:
- Kaxinawá
- Collector:
- Kenneth M. Kensinger and Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Collection date:
- June-July 1963
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Caps (headgear)
- Accession date:
- 1963
- Context of use:
- Used for protecting the head from dirt, when the man is clearing underbrush or trees for making garden.
- Department:
- South America (except Ancient Peru)
- Legacy documentation:
-