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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 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 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 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 monkey fur and feather headdress
This headdress consists of monkey fur and blue, red, and yellow macaw feathers and brown wild turkey feathers dispersed throughout.
Notes on accession card:
"skin: dukawan
y. f.: macaw (kana)
dull blue: kana
vibrant blue-gr. : xawan
brown:…
Notes on accession card:
"skin: dukawan
y. f.: macaw (kana)
dull blue: kana
vibrant blue-gr. : xawan
brown:…
Peruvian Kaxinawá monkey fur and feather headdress
This headdress consists of spider monkey fur and blue, red, and yellow feathers dispersed throughout.
headband length - 27.5 cm
tail length - 30 cm
Condition of item:
shriveled skin, hair falling out
headband length - 27.5 cm
tail length - 30 cm
Condition of item:
shriveled skin, hair falling out
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
Peruvian Kaxinawá ocelot and monkey skin headdress
A headdress made of a wide but thin bamboo band adorned with ocelot skin, monkey skin, and multicolored macaw feathers.
back width - 9.5 cm
side widths - 7.9 cm
front width - 6.4 cm
circumference - 63 cm
back width - 9.5 cm
side widths - 7.9 cm
front width - 6.4 cm
circumference - 63 cm
Peruvian Kaxinawá war club
A rectangular palm bark war club with triangular indention at bottom and areas of pink, black, and white (with design) string decoration along the long, carved top part of the handle. These decorations continue along the rest of the handle.
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Peruvian Kaxinawá wooden machete
A wooden machete adorned with a stained black and brownish design, with a razor grass-decorated handle, and feathers. The blade is straight edged and has a slanted tip.
Notes on accession card:
"Use: In initiation rites for ceremonial clearing of…
Notes on accession card:
"Use: In initiation rites for ceremonial clearing of…
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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.…