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TitleTupinambá feather cape

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureBrazilian

Creator roleDesigner

Creation date1500–1600

Object typeClothing/Costume

MaterialsFeathers and vegetable fibers

LocationMusées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels

https://www.carmentis.be:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=142482&viewType=detailView

Accession numberAAM 05783

SubjectsFeather cloaksTupinamba IndiansEthnic costumeShamanism

StatusRed feathers come from the scarlet ibis (guará); blue, yellow, and green feathers come from the blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) and, probably, the blue-front parrot (Amazona aestival)

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Introduction

Daniela Bleichmar

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

~Sometimes, when walking through the hushed rooms of a museum, you come upon an object that stops you in your tracks. There you were, turning a corner after having spent some time looking at a work, or briskly making your way toward a room you remember from a previous visit, or perhaps on your way to the cafeteria or the bathroom or the gift shop....

Author

Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.xi-xiii

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21535&redirecttoanchor=68375

Chapter subject tags:Natural history--Latin AmericaVisual culture--Latin America

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