Shaman's belt (Image withheld)
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Tomaráho (Tumraha)
- Collector
- Alberto Vojtech Fric, Non-Indian, 1882-1944
- Previous owner
- Alberto Vojtech Fric, Non-Indian, 1882-1944
- Seller
- Alberto Vojtech Fric, Non-Indian, 1882-1944
- Object Name
- Shaman's belt (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Feather/feathers, seed/seeds, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Bead-wrapped
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- Place
- Chaco Boreal region (northern Chaco); Paraguay
- Collection History
- Collected by Alberto Vojtech Fric (1882-1944, a Czech botanist and ethnographer), probably between 1905 and 1923; purchased by MAI from Alberto Vojtech Fric in 1923.
- Catalog Number
- 12/5420
- Barcode
- 125420.000
- See related items
- Tomaráho (Tumraha)
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- 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