Necklace with attached flute
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Ka'apor
- Collector
- Dr. Borys Malkin (Boris Malkin), Non-Indian, 1917-2009
- Seller
- Dr. Borys Malkin (Boris Malkin), Non-Indian, 1917-2009
- Object Name
- Necklace with attached flute
- Media/Materials
- Macaw feather/feathers, cotinga scalp/scalps, canvas, bird bone/bones, cordage
- Techniques
- Braided, wrapped, tied
- Dimensions
- 72 x 15.5 x 2.9 cm
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Native Term
- wirahu kangwer
- Place
- Rio Gurupi (Gurupy); Canindé, Paragominas Municipality; Southeast Mesoregion, Paragominas Microregion; Pará State, North Region; Brazil
- Date created
- 1955-1962
- Collection History
- Collected in 1962 by Dr. Borys Malkin (1917-2009, a naturalist and ethnographer); purchased by MAI from Borys Malkin in 1963.
- Catalog Number
- 23/3285
- Barcode
- 233285.000
- See related items
- Ka'apor
- Adornment/Jewelry
- 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