Basketry rattle decorated with coloured feathers. Cane handle bound on with string. Purchased from anthropologists supplying FUNAI shops.

Collection type: Object
Description: Basketry rattle decorated with coloured feathers. Cane handle bound on with string. Purchased from anthropologists supplying FUNAI shops.
Geographical reference: Brazil
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Brazil; Para State
Cultural groups: Waiwai
Person: Field collector Zeina El-Khouri Klink; PRM source Hélène La Rue
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1990
Date collected: 1990
Acquisition information: Donated: 10/1990
Materials and processes: Material Cane Plant, Material String, Material Bird Feather, Process Basketry, Process Tied, Process Decorated, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 344 mm, Width: max 80 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1990.47.9
Associated publications: Illustrated in colour as plate 3 on page 91 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘Brazil, Para State, Wai Wai. Twill plaited rattle of reed with pattern in black, decorated with coloured feathers. L: 360 mm. Collected by Zeina El-Khouri Klink, 1990. 1990.47.9’ [MJD 18/01/2013]

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