Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 11345 A-E: 'Feather ornaments of a "Capitan" or combined chief and priest or medicine man consisting of A: Skirt on bark cloth foundation. B: Pair of leg ornaments. C: Pair of arm ornaments. D: Headdress. E: Rectangular palm-leaf box.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card for Z 11345 A-E: 'The dresses are rare and only one or two exist. Used only in dances and ceremonies held at night.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card for Z 11345 A-E: 'Obtained by R.W. barker from Battista Venturello, who got it in 1937, from the Guanano-Curepaco group of Indians (also known locally, with other tribes, as Guahibos), from the Isana River, a tributary of the Vaupes (mouth about 0 degrees 67 degrees W).'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Maudslay Hall, display panels 69 and 70 from July 1981. Removed from display on 4 september 1986.
Event Date 7/1981
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
These objects, not including the box, are made of layers of different coloured and different lengths feathers, including white feathers which are mainly skeletal now, which are attached to plant fibre plaited rope or string. The bands where the feathers are attached are decorated with small feathers which are either primarily yellow, or primarily red depending on the piece. D is missing its basketry base, and is only the feather decoration of the headdress.
Event Date 21/3/2005
Author: Emily Shorter

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6022 | Freezing
Event Date 13/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
Headdress, part of a dance costume used in ceremonies; made from multicoloured feathers. Structural composition of hollow shaft feathers from multiple birds attached with stitches at the base to a wooden frame. Four wooden spikes go down from the structure. The base of front of the head ornament is decorated with white and red possibly down toucan feathers; a layer of semiplume white feathers followed by long feathers. The back of the head ornament has layers of light pink short feathers with a read and a blue feather at the centre; four long possibly Macao feathers.

Event Date 3/9/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc