Headpiece

Museum number:
16-9876
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1810
Description:
Feathered headpiece for Kacha Nawa; Maiti; circular stick frame of palm bark strips; trumpeter bird feathers attached to frame with cotton thread; macaw feathers attached with beeswax; about 6.5 inches inside diameter.
Donor:
Kenneth M. Kensinger and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
Peru
Collector:
Kenneth M. Kensinger and Summer Institute of Linguistics
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1963
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headpiece, accession number 16-9876, described as Feathered headpiece for Kacha Nawa; Maiti; circular stick frame of palm bark strips; trumpeter bird feathers attached to frame with cotton thread; macaw feathers attached with beeswax; about 6.5 inches inside diameter.

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