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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 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 bamboo with yellow, blue, purple, and grey feathers headdress

A headdress consisting of a wide, thin bamboo band adorned with yellow, blue, purple, and gray feathers.

Notes on accession card:
"This headdress has yellow macaw (kana) feathers, and bluish tanager (xanen) feathers. base-tail oriole feathers (2…

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…

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

Peruvian Kaxinawá harpy eagle feather headdress

A headdress consisting of a wooden circle featuring black, brown, and yellow reed material at the bottom, as well as white and black woven material. This headdress is adorned with dark blue, multicolored folding, fluffy white, and white-black spotted…

Peruvian Kaxinawá harpy eagle feather headdress

A headdress consisting of a wooden circle adorned with black string around it, adorned with pink, black, and white woven material featuring one red feather in the back as well as multicolored short feathers and long, shaggy gray and white harpy eagle…

Peruvian Kaxinawá harpy eagle Chief's dance costume

Part of a chief's dance costume (intended as a "back rack") consisting of brown harpy eagle and other multicolored feathers mounted on a woven vine rack.

width from front-to-back - 48.4 cm
width from side-to-side - 53.2 cm

Peruvian Kaxinawá green parrot feather headdress

A headdress consisting of a wooden circle with black, white, and pink string adorned with rows of feathers.

Notes on accession card:
"Pei maiti- Feather hat-
Weaving of Pink, Black and white around wood headpiece. Lowest layer of feathers:…

Peruvian Kaxinawá giant anteater skin headdress

A headdress consisting of a wide, thin bamboo circle. The surface is covered with giant anteater skin and adorned with multicolored feathers with two tall red feathers in the back.

Notes on accession cards:
"Paka maiti Keneya (bamboo hat with…