Object Details
- Culture/People
- Ka'apor
- Previous owner
- National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution (National Zoo)
- Embassy of Brazil (Brazilian Embassy)
- Collection History
- Donated to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park by the Brazilian Embassy circa 1992; transferred to NMAI by the National Zoo in 2003.
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- circa 1960
- Catalog Number
- 26/2927
- Barcode
- 262927.000
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- Indigenous Term
- wirara
- Object Name
- Man's headdress
- Media/Materials
- Golden parakeet feather/feathers, parrot feather/feathers, feather/feathers, cotton twine/string, thread
- Techniques
- Fingerwoven, braided, stitched
- Dimensions
- 30 x 20 x 4 cm
- Place
- Rio Gurupi (Gurupy); Maranhão State, Northeast Region; Brazil (inferred)
- See related items
- Ka'apor
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_279061
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6000aacfa-7d45-472e-9441-877cd7aa3787
