A Kayapó Amazon Indigenous feather men’s headdress
Brazil, Mato Grosso, Tapirapé, collected in the 1950s-1960s
H. 70 cm
The base of the headdress is an open-topped hourglass-shaped cap made of woven raffia. The lower ring is covered with white feather down, above which a band of Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) down feathers is knotted on a string that covers the quills of a black-green iridescent row of a Penelope bird or Spix's guan (Penelope jacquacu) feathers trimmed at the upper edge, above which one row of cropped white Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) feathers towers. Finally, the ensemble is finished with a wreath of vibrant red and blue tail feathers from the Scarlet macaw and Yellow-breasted blue macaw (Ara ararauna).
Literature:
- Gisela Völger & Ursula Dyckerhoff et al., Federarbeiten der Indianer Südamerikas aus der Studiensammlung Horst Antes, Oktagon Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995, no. 199 (comparable)
H. 70 cm
The base of the headdress is an open-topped hourglass-shaped cap made of woven raffia. The lower ring is covered with white feather down, above which a band of Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) down feathers is knotted on a string that covers the quills of a black-green iridescent row of a Penelope bird or Spix's guan (Penelope jacquacu) feathers trimmed at the upper edge, above which one row of cropped white Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) feathers towers. Finally, the ensemble is finished with a wreath of vibrant red and blue tail feathers from the Scarlet macaw and Yellow-breasted blue macaw (Ara ararauna).
Literature:
- Gisela Völger & Ursula Dyckerhoff et al., Federarbeiten der Indianer Südamerikas aus der Studiensammlung Horst Antes, Oktagon Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995, no. 199 (comparable)
Part of the The Americas collection.
