Man's Neck Ornament Item Number: 88.89.10 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Man's neck ornament composed of two narrow panels covered with dark gray and turquoise feathers (it looks like bird skins are sewn to cotton cloth); a front pendant with a hollow bird-bone flute flanked by two small bird bodies and long red Scarlet macaw feathers; and a smaller back pendant made of outspread bird wings surrounded by additional feathers. Each section is attached with a fiber cord. The bird bodies (Cotinga?) on the front pendant are small and flattened with attached feathers in purple, white, turquoise blue, black, gray, and red; the bird bodies are surrounded by six long red Scarlet Macaw feathers, which are decorated with disks of turquoise and dark blue feathers at the tips. The bird body on the back pendant has two outspread black wings, a turquoise feather disk and a small red feather, surrounded by additional blue, yellow and orange feathers. The ornament is worn during a male child's naming ceremony during which the flute is played. Condition: good; one of the turquoise feather disks on the long red Scarlet Macaw feathers is missing.
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Item History
- Made between 1900 and 1999
What
- Name
- Man's Neck Ornament
- Identification Number
- 88.89.10
- Type of Item
- neck ornament and man
- Material
- feather, fibre, bird skin, cotton cloth and bone
- Overall
- length 9.0 in, width 30.0 in, height 1.5 in
Who
- Culture
- Kaapor
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1900 and 1999
Other
- Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
- Classification
- Ornament