Collector:
Johann Natterer (1787 Laxenburg bei Wien - 1843 Wien) DNB
Collector:
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (1782 Böhmisch-Kamnitz - 1834 Wien) DNB
Collector:
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794 Brünn - 1865 Wien) DNB
Collection:
Österreichische Brasilienexpedition
Time:
Before 1835
Object Name
Headdress
Culture
Apiaká
Material/technology:
Tail feathers of the scarlet macaw, tail feathers of the oropendola, wing feahers of the black-fronted piping guan, cotton, plant fibres, liana bark
Inscribed
This feather headdress is one of the few pieces that can be attributed to a person. The inventory notes: ‘Feather crown “Kanitara” of the Caziquen Prehá of the Apiacá’. A comparable feather headdress was depicted by the Monegasque-Brazilian painter Hércules Florence, who accompanied Count Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff on his expedition to Brazil from 1826 to 1829. It is not known whether the wearer of the headdress is the aforementioned Preha.
Copyright
Weltmuseum Wien
Collection area
South America
Invs.
1185
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