Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1940 during the Wenner-Gren Scientific Expedition to Hispanic America, led by anthropologist and filmmaker Paul Fejos (1897-1963) and sponsored by Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (1881-1961); donated to MAI by the Viking Fund, Inc. in 1942.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kareneri
- Expedition
- Wenner-Gren Scientific Expedition to Hispanic America (1940-1941) (Wenner-Gren Peru Expedition)
- Expedition leader
- Dr. Paul Fejos (Pál Fejös), Non-Indian, 1897-1963
- Expedition sponsor
- Axel Wenner-Gren, Non-Indian, 1881-1961
- Donor
- Viking Fund, Incorporated (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.), 1941-
- Object Name
- Hair ornament
- Media/Materials
- Feather/feathers
- Techniques
- Unmodified
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
