Native Name | Maiti |
Object Number | 65-10-8 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Palm Leaf | Cotton | Feather |
Description | Palm leaf rib frame, 2/3 circumference covered by blue and white cotton cloth with attached clipped yellow, red, black and blue parrot feathers and large white harpy eagle breast feathers, also a few paujil feathers; plain portion of frame wrapped with white and black cord and razor grass. Called chidin tadi as well maiti. Used in fertility rites. Feathers from Harpy Eagle, Scarlet Macaw, and Blue-and-yellow Macaw. |
Length | 18 cm |
Thickness | 1.4 cm |
Outside Diameter | 19.3 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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