Wife-beating stick

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

Culture/People
Amahuaca
Collector
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Previous owner
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Seller
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Collection History
Collected between 1965 and 1966 by Nicole H. Maxwell (1905-1998, a pioneering researcher of traditional South American Native medicine and ethnobotany from the 1940s through the 1980s); purchased by MAI from Nicole H. Maxwell in 1967.
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Catalog Number
23/9748
Barcode
239748.000
Object Type
Personal items
Object Name
Wife-beating stick
Media/Materials
Wood, cordage, hide
Techniques
Wrapped
Place
Río Alto Yuruá (Juruá); Atalaya Province; Ucayali Region; Peru
See related items
Amahuaca
Personal items
National Museum of the American Indian
Record ID
NMAI_254956
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6ed5f3a7e-7880-4510-bd73-1486d0e28fa5
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