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Peruvian Kaxinawá blue and gold macaw feather headdress
A headdress consisting of a wooden circle, woven pink, gray, and white string and feathers.
Notes on accession card:
"Pei Mati- Wood frame around which is woven white, pink and blue/grey cotton plus gold plant (razor grass) fiber strip wrapped…
Notes on accession card:
"Pei Mati- Wood frame around which is woven white, pink and blue/grey cotton plus gold plant (razor grass) fiber strip wrapped…
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…
Notes on accession card:
"This headdress has yellow macaw (kana) feathers, and bluish tanager (xanen) feathers. base-tail oriole feathers (2…
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
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, 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 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 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 Job's tears, pig and alligator teeth, tapir hoof, and macaw feather necklace
A necklace consisting of sixteen animal teeth (alligator and pig), one tapir hoof, Job's tears (Coix lacryma jobi), and five clusters of cut macaw feathers. length- 40 cm
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 monkey fur headdress
This headdress consists of a wide but thin bamboo band with monkey fur and two red macaw feathers standing vertically.
front width - 11.9 cm
back width - 11 cm
side widths - 11 cm
front width - 11.9 cm
back width - 11 cm
side widths - 11 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.…