Record details

• ISBN: 0934718806
• ISBN: 9780934718806
• ISBN: 092417112X
• ISBN: 9780924171123
• ISBN: 0924171111
• ISBN: 9780924171116
• Physical Description: xxi, 137 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
• Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, ©1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Volume accompanying an exhibition held at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania"--Title page verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: Feather Objects in Culture / Ruben E. Reina -- Introduction: Why Feathers? / Kenneth m. Kensinger -- I. Ancient Plumage: Featherworking in Precolumbian Peru / Kay L. Candler -- II. An Ancient Andean Feathered Headdress / Virginia Greene -- III. Social and Spiritual Languages of Feather Art: The Bororo of Central Brazil / Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur -- IV. Feathers Make Us Beautiful: The Meaning of Cashinahua Feather Headdresses / Kenneth M. Kensinger -- V. Fragments of the Heavens: Feathers as Ornaments Among the Waiwai / Catherine V. Howard -- VI. Feathers are for Flying / Patricia J. Lyon -- VII. Feathers of Blood & Fire: The Mythological Origins of Avian Coloration / Jon F. Pressman -- VIII. Crowns of Power: Bird and Feather Symbolism in Amazonian Shamanism / Peter T. Furst.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

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Subject:

Indian featherwork > South America > Exhibitions.
Featherwork > South America > Exhibitions.
University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology > Exhibitions.
University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Featherwork.
Indian featherwork.
South America.
University of Pennsylvania. Museum of archaeology and anthropology (Philadelphie, Pa.) > Catalogues.
Crafts.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

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• University Museum monograph ; 75.