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Peruvian Kaxinawá comb with wooden teeth and woven cotton binding
A comb consisting of smooth, rounded, and sharply pointed wooden teeth woven together with pink, black, and white string. Women typically use this type of item as a comb. It is adorned with red and gray macaw feathers.
base- 9 cm
width- 8…
base- 9 cm
width- 8…
Peruvian Kaxinawá headdress made of snake skin adorned with feathers, Job's tears, porcupine quills, and cotton pom-poms.
A headdress consisting of a wide circle of snakeskin, purple, blue, yellow, and red feathers on a band, small Job's tears (Coix lacryma jobi), porcupine quills, and string with pink and blue pom poms circling the bottom of the band. Notes on…
Peruvian Kaxinawá ceramic doll (female)
MISSING SINCE 2011.
A female ceramic doll made of red clay with outstretched arms and molded breasts. Some areas are blackened and designed. White, squarish shell eyes are affixed to the figure with pitch. Four bead earrings are strung through…
A female ceramic doll made of red clay with outstretched arms and molded breasts. Some areas are blackened and designed. White, squarish shell eyes are affixed to the figure with pitch. Four bead earrings are strung through…
Peruvian Kaxinawá ceramic doll (male)
A male ceramic doll made of red clay in a seated position with outstretched arms and molded genitalia. White, squarish shell eyes are affixed to the figure with pitch. Some areas of the figure are designed and blackened.
length- roughly 16…
length- roughly 16…
Peruvian Kaxinawá ceramic doll (male)
A male ceramic doll made of red clay with outstretched arms, a distorted face, and molded genitalia. One white, squarish shell eye is affixed to the figure with pitch. Some areas of the figure are designed and blackened.
length- roughly 23.5…
length- roughly 23.5…
Peruvian Kaxinawá snake skin headdress adorned with feathers, Job's tears, and monkey teeth.
A headdress consisting of a circle of snakeskin decorated with blue, yellow, red, brown, and white feathers. Around the bottom of this snakeskin band is a cotton thread with small monkey teeth and eight hanging objects attached. These hanging objects…
Peruvian Kaxinawá wild turkey, macaw, and heron.feather headdress
A headdress consisting of a wooden circle adorned with black and white woven band with short black wild turkey feathers and yellow and red parrot feathers inside of folding white heron feathers attached with black string.
Notes on accession…
Notes on accession…
Peruvian Kaxinawá wild turkey, macaw, and heron feather headdress
A headdress consisting of a wooden circle adorned with black, white, and pink woven band with a double row of short black wild turkey feathers and yellow/blue/red macaw feathers inside of folding white heron feathers attached with black…
Peruvian Kaxinawá wild turkey, parrot, and harpy eagle feather headdress
A headdress consisting of a wooden circle adorned with pink, gray, and white woven band with one row of short black feathers (from the underpart of a harpy eagle's wing) and one row of colored feathers (parrot and wild turkey).
front-to-back…
front-to-back…
Peruvian Kaxinawá bamboo and macaw tail feather headdress
A headdress consisting of a wide, thin bamboo circle with one long red macaw tail feather with one short black and white wild turkey feather attached to the back.
back width- 8.4 cm
front width- 9 cm
side width- 9 cm
back width- 8.4 cm
front width- 9 cm
side width- 9 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.…