Nose ornament: a black feather, with tuft of red feathers at its base, bound to a length of cane with cotton yarn. Decorative binding in white ?bird quill. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 13/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Nose ornament: a black feather, with tuft of red feathers at its base, bound to a length of cane with cotton yarn. Decorative binding in white ?bird quill. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 13/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Brazil
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Brazil; Matto Grosso Central Plateau Juerenan River
Cultural groups: Nambikwara
Person: Field collector George Miller Dyott; PRM source George Miller Dyott
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1920-1926?, uncertain
Date collected: 1926
Acquisition information: Donated: 1929
Materials and processes: Material Bird Feather, Material Cane Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Bird Quill
Dimensions: Length: max 265 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1929.16.9
Research and responses: For notes on the Amazonian featherwork and related material on display in the Museum in April 2016, including this object, with suggestions regarding provenance and species identification, see the untitled report by Andreas Schlothauer and related correspondence in the RDF: Researchers: Andreas Schlothauer. [JC 8 7 2016]