Native Name | Mankan Due |
Object Number | 65-10-79 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Fiber | Grass | Pigment | Feather |
Description | Long handle, half wrapped with white, pink, black cord and yellow razor grass; red achiote rectilinear designs painted on white cord; yellow and black feathers at end of wrapping; notched stone head bound on with heavily waxed cord, additional wax at cord top. Used ceremonially in initiation rites; as axes until early 1950s. |
Length | 51 cm |
Width | 9.7 cm |
Outside Diameter | 2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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