Abeata

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Spring cover

Feather bonnet with a hanging made of thick cotton cords; worn by shamans at funerals ("ABEATA"). A layer of unprocessed cotton is attached to the inside and outside of a bonnet made of bent bamboo slats. Two rows of feathers are tied around the edge: the second row of black feathers lies on the larger row of feathers consisting of multi-coloured Amazon feathers. A braid of palm leaf is tied to the inside of the bonnet, to which in turn the hanging, which is open towards the front and made of thick cotton cords (cotton threads wrapped with unprocessed cotton), is knotted together by wrapping beaded half-braids. A brown-black gaviao (= harpy eagle) tail feather is knotted to each of the cotton cords at the lower end of the hanging. Knotted to the front of the canopy are 3 bamboo tubes wrapped in partially unprocessed cotton, at the end of each of which is tied a feather bouquet of black cover feathers.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Yuruna
Object type
Spring cover
Dimensions
Depth: 170 cm
Width: 92 cm
Material/Technique
Feathers , Cotton, Bamboo, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 18876

Provenance and sources

when
before 1992
where
Brazil [Land]
who
Yuruna
who
Renata und Eduardo Leroux - Former Possessors

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