Woman's hair tie
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Canelos Kichua
- Artist/Maker
- Juana Catalina Chango, Canelos Kichua
- Collector
- Dr. Norman E. Whitten, Non-Indian
- Dorothea Scott Whitten (Sibby Whitten), Non-Indian, 1930-2011
- Donor
- Dr. Norman E. Whitten, Non-Indian
- Object Name
- Woman's hair tie
- Media/Materials
- Cotton yarn, wool yarn, thread
- Techniques
- Woven, braided
- Dimensions
- 14.5 x 2.8 cm
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Place
- Río Chico, Comuna San Jacinto del Pindo; Pastaza Canton; Pastaza Province; Ecuador
- Date created
- 1973
- Collection History
- Collected or acquired by anthropologists Norman E. Whitten and Dorothea Scott Whitten (1930–2011) in 1973 during anthropological research and humanitarian work with the Amazonian peoples of Ecuador; donated to NMAI by Dr. Norman E. Whitten in 2019.
- Catalog Number
- 27/477
- Barcode
- 270477.000
- See related items
- Canelos Kichua
- 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