head-dress

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Object Type: head-dress
Museum number: Am.8737
Description: Head-dress (part of) made of feathers, wood, string, reed.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Coeruna; Made by: Witoto
Production date: 1860s
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Johann Baptist von Spix; Field Collection by: Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Brazil (country); Found/Acquired: South America; Found/Acquired: Amazon, River
Materials: feather; wood; fibre (?); reed
Dimensions: Height: 47 centimetres; Width: 8 centimetres; Depth: 1.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Information provided by Murui Muina elders and researcher Juan Alvaro Echeverri. This seems to be a coeruna object. The Coeruna are a nowadays disappeared group closely related to the Murui Muina.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Exchanged with: Munich Ethnographical Museum
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am.8737
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1872C1.8737 (old CDMS no.)

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