Breech Cloth

SA343E

From: Brazil (uncertain) | Guiana (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number SA343E
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Waiwai
Provenience Brazil (uncertain) | Guiana (uncertain)
Culture Area Amazonia
Section American
Materials Cotton | Macaw Feather | Seed | Glass
Description

Woven bands of brown cotton decorated with feathers, etc. Sash with fringes of red/yellow macaw feathers at one (front) end. Back end fringe with badly worn blue/yellow and red/orange macaw feathers. No central sash fringe.

Credit Line Amazonian Expedition, William C. Farabee, 1916

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