Breast ornament; brown nut shells, seed & coloured glass beads tied to a wooden (or cane?) comb with a woven border [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Breast ornament; brown nut shells, seed & coloured glass beads tied to a wooden (or cane?) comb with a woven border [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Santiago river, Department of Amazonas
Cultural groups: Wampis
Person: Field collector Ronald Hawkesby Thomas; PRM source Ronald Hawkesby Thomas
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923
Date collected: By 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Plant Seed, Material String, Material Bead, Material Wood Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Perforated, Process Strung, Process Tied
Dimensions: Length: max 65 mm comb
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.88.198
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from Ronald Hawksby Thomas to Henry Balfour, dated 6 November, 1922, giving the route of his journey through 'the Alio [?sic], Maranon, Santiago and Morona rivers and that area'. List of 'Curios to Oxford' (2 pages), and notes on 'The Indian Tribes of the Northern Oriental Region of Peru' [signed R. H. Thomas, 10.11.22] and list of 'Huambisa or Aguaruna Vocabulary (9 pages). [GI 20/11/2001].
This breast ornament does not appear to be on the list in the RDF of items sent to the Museum by Thomas. [CF 30/3/2001]

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