fringe;
ornament;
bracelet(?)
- Museum number
- Am1952,12.25
- Description
-
Feather ornament (fringe), probably used as a bracelet, made of red and yellow feathers of different lengths on a ply twisted fibre string.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 8.80 inches (of red feather portion)
- Curator's comments
- Register 1952:
Two feather ornaments (fringes), probably used as bracelets, made of red and yellow feathers of different lengths on a ply twisted fibre string.
Register 1952:
No. 25: Feather ornament, similar to Nos. 17-20 but with longer yellow feathers added.
No. 26: Similar [to Am1952,12.25].
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
- Am1952,12.25
