fringe;
bracelet(?)
- Museum number
- Am1952,12.23
- Description
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Feather fringe (perhaps used as a bracelet), made of vent feathers on a ply twisted fibre string and seed beads at each end.
- Dimensions
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Length: 9.30 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register 1952:
Two feather fringes (perhaps used as bracelets), made of vent feathers on a ply twisted fibre string and seed beads at each end.
Register 1952:
No. 22: Feather fringe, similar to Nos. 17-20 but with seed beads at each end.
No. 23: Similar [to Am1952,12.22].
Modern. Urubu tribe ("of Tupí stock"). Sout of the Amazon, Brazil.
See author's book "Affable Savages".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1952,12.23