Whip
- Museum number:
- 16-11532
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21160011532
- Accession number:
- Acc.1884 and Acc.2091
- Description:
- Wife beater" (cocosi); tapir hide whip with wood handle made by men; used disciplining female family members, grudge matches, and tests of endurance; length 4 feet, 9½ inches.
- Donor:
- John Howland Rowe, Patsy Jean Adams, and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- San Bernardo village, Upper Purús River, Peru
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Peru; Upper Purús River; San Bereardo village; Culina tribe
- Culture or time period:
- Culina
- Collector:
- Patsy Jean Adams
- Collection date:
- 1966
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Whips (striking tools)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1964 and 1966
- Department:
- South America (except Ancient Peru)
- Comment:
- Kensinger gives name in idiom as "Ainbu Kuxati" (ain=woman, bu=collective, Kuxa=to beat, ti=thing); see accession envelope and file card for 16-11504 for additional information.
- Legacy documentation:
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