Native Name | Maiti |
Object Number | 65-10-15 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Vines | Feathers | Grass | Cord |
Description | Three vine frames covered with black waxed cord, soft black trumpeter feathers attached; multicolored parrot feathers attached to above; 2 long harpy eagle feathers upright from frame back, notched; quill pushed through arrowcane wrapped with black and whtie cord and razor grass; red (achiote) geometrical designs painted on whtie areas, small parrot feathers at top of lashing. Used in fertility rights. |
Length | 47 cm |
Thickness | 1.4 cm |
Outside Diameter | 18.5 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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