1960.6.2.7

Collection type

Object

Description

Feathers on a cotton band, part of headdress. [El.B 16/12/2008]

Long description

The feathers are in three layers, at the bottom are back ones, above that red ones (with some yellow and green) and above that blue ones (with some yellow and green). They are bound together with plant fibre string and attached to a woven band of cotton, white with a blue stripe. The cotton hangs down at both ends in long streamers to which are attached small tufts of down and a piece of bird skin with red feathers. [El.B 16/12/2008]

Geographical reference

Guyana

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana

Cultural groups

Macusi

Person

Field collector Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America

Field collector Peter Gerard Rivière

PRM source Peter Gerard Rivière

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1958

Date collected

1957 - 1958

Acquisition information

Donated: 1960

Materials and processes

Material Bird Feather, Material Plant Fibre, Material Cotton Yarn Plant, Material Bird Skin, Process Woven, Process Bound

Dimensions

Length: max 490 mm without streamers

Object numbers

Accession number: 1960.6.2.7 Other numbers: 102

Research and responses

Related Documents File - Catalogue: 'The Oxford & Cambridge Expedition to South America 1958. A collection of photographs and ethnological items of the indigenous INDIANS OF BRAZIL and a selection of hand-coloured prints taken during the journey round the continet.' Circulated by Art Exhibitions Bureau.

Several pages of notes in Spanish.

Two page typed, but unfinished manuscript (with edits written on it) and inventory of items loaned to an Exhibition. Author unknown, possibly Rivière? [MOB 19/2/2002]

Search terms: Ornament, Ritual and Ceremonial, Clothing Headgear, Basketry, Headdress