Native Name | Haxi |
Object Number | 65-10-83 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Bird Bone | Wool | Grass | Feather |
Description | Ceremonial weapon. Wood, cord and bird bill; roughly woven wood handle bound to large black jabaru stork beak wide open; binding red and black waxed cord and razor grass extends half way down handle; beak tips similarly bound; two blue parrot feathers stuck in holes in bill. Used in fertility rites to ambush spirits. |
Length | 46.8 cm |
Width | 23 cm |
Outside Diameter | 2.5 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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