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Peruvian Kaxinawá harpy eagle feather chief's plastron
This plastron is a feather train for the chief's dance costume. It features feathers attached to wooden bars, with split quills wrapped around the bars with black waxed string. Consists of brown and white harpy eagle and beige and black hawk…
Peruvian Kaxinawá chief's feather headdress
This headdress consists of a double wooden circle with thick white string and blue/white woven material. Four multicolored macaw feathers stand tall as do four sticks with white harpy eagle feathers. Also white, fluffy, and multicolored feathers…
Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton skirt
This cotton skirt consists of woven white, pink, and purple material. There is a stripe of purple up the middle of the one side and a rose stripe goes up the middle of the other side.
width - 43 cm
length - 58.3 cm
Obtained new
width - 43 cm
length - 58.3 cm
Obtained new
Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton skirt
This cotton skirt consists of woven pink and gray material.
width - 54 cm
length - 50.2 cm
Obtained used
width - 54 cm
length - 50.2 cm
Obtained used
Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton skirt
This very worn and tattered cotton skirt features a woven design.
length - 42 cm
width - 49 cm
length - 42 cm
width - 49 cm
Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton cloth
This square cotton cloth showcases the work of a young amateur weaver. The white woven material has bound ends with two strings in each corner.
Notes on accession card:
"One of the first pieces she made. Size is big enough to provide sitting…
Notes on accession card:
"One of the first pieces she made. Size is big enough to provide sitting…
Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton hammock
This cotton hammock originally featured a black and pink design that has since faded and was made to accommodate two sleepers.
length- 210cm
width- (roughly) 156cm
Obtained used
length- 210cm
width- (roughly) 156cm
Obtained used
Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton cloth on loom
This loom (small) consists of two balsa wood loom poles, two pairs of stretcher poles (with one pair attached to material with two of the small palm bark pins), three palm bark pins, one palm bark weaving sword, and two bobbins (one with purple…
Peruvian Kaxinawá necklace with Job's tears, black seed, ocelot, alligator, and rodent teeth
A necklace consisting of Job's tears (Coix lacryma jobi), black seeds ("Mai-Matsi"), ocelot, alligator and rodent teeth. length- 57.5 cm
Peruvian Kaxinawá Job's tears and black seed necklace
A necklace consisting of Job's tears (Coix lacryma jobi) and black seeds ("Mai-Matsi"). length- 38.5 cm
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Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton belt
A cotton belt/ hip band consisting of a heavy, narrow white and black woven band; white, blue, and pink fringe; and white string at either end.…