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A large Kayapo Amazon Indigenous child’s feather headdress

Brazil, Xingu River, collected between 1954 and1977

Made from a cotton thread, woven and decorated with colorful Orange-winged Amazon (Amazona amazonica) and Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloroptera) feathers.

H. 97 x W. 53 cm

Provenance:
Collected by Marcel Isy-Schwart (1917-2012) in the 1960s; thence by descent

Part of the The Americas collection.