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Instrument for body painting from snake vertebrae

Entry in historical index card, entry in the main historical catalogue: Painted instrument made of rattlesnake vertebrae.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Kayapó
Object type
Instrument for body painting from snake vertebrae
Dimensions
Länge: 33 cm
Material/Technique
Bone (vertebrae, snake), Feathers
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 7940

Provenance and sources

where
Brazil [Land]
Pao d'Arco [Dorf]
who
Kayapó

who
Wilhelm G. Kissenberth (1878 - 1944) - Collectors

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