Lip Ornament

SA363H

From: Guiana (uncertain) | Brazil (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number SA363H
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Waiwai
Provenience Guiana (uncertain) | Brazil (uncertain)
Culture Area Amazonia
Section American
Materials Feather | Wood | Glass | Seed | Plant Fiber
Description

Feathers and beads with wooden attachment peg. Four white beads at top branching into 3 strands of alternating red and white beads. These three strands branch into two white strands of beads and again into four, six, eight, ten, ten and four strands of white beads. Seeds at all junctures. Two strands of white beads hang beneath each of the five bundles of feathers.

Credit Line Amazonian Expedition, William C. Farabee, 1916

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