Necklace

About this object

Narrative

Purchased by donor in 1989 at a FUNAI store in Belem, Brazil.

Physical description

Necklace made of twisted jute string with "huayruro" seeds between four long sticks; parrot feathers at the ends of two sticks. Small stick in the centre of necklace forms a pendant, covered by bast fibre and capped with parrot and heron feathers. Sticks are tied with black hair and two of them have long thorns interspersed.