Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Nicole H. Maxwell (1905-1998, a pioneering researcher of traditional South American Native medicine and ethnobotany from the 1940s through the 1980s), probably in the late 1960s; donated to MAI by Nicole H. Maxwell in 1970.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha)
- Collector
- Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
- Donor
- Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
- Object Name
- Head scarf/Bandana
- Media/Materials
- Feather/feathers, cordage
- Techniques
- Woven, painted
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
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