Burden basket with burden strap/tumpline
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Mebêngôkre (Kayapó/Cayapo)
- Collector
- Francis Gow-Smith (Francis William Gow-Smith), Non-Indian, 1894-1939
- Seller
- Francis Gow-Smith (Francis William Gow-Smith), Non-Indian, 1894-1939
- Object Name
- Burden basket with burden strap/tumpline
- Media/Materials
- Palm fiber, cordage
- Techniques
- Wicker-plaited, plaited
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Place
- Pará State, North Region; Brazil
- Collection History
- Collected between 1922 and 1924 by explorer and amateur ethnologist Francis Gow-Smith (1894-1939); purchased by MAI from Francis Gow-Smith in 1924.
- Catalog Number
- 13/6072
- Barcode
- 136072.000
- See related items
- Mebêngôkre (Kayapó/Cayapo)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement