Native Name | Chinaxeti |
Object Number | 65-10-135 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Grass | Feather | Arrowcane | Cloth |
Description | Woven white with black borders; attached at bottom is a string with pendant strands of red, white, brown and black; attached at top small pieces of arrowcane wound with cord and grass which hold on the small bright yellow, red and blue feathers; long ties at ends. Used in ceremonial fertility rites. |
Length | 72 cm |
Width | 20 cm |
Outside Diameter | 1.2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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