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Title:

The gift of birds : featherwork of native South American peoples / edited by Ruben E. Reina, Kenneth M. Kensinger.

Publisher:

University Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyUniversity of Pennsylvania,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

xxi, 137 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Subject:

Indian featherwork--South America--Exhibitions.
Featherwork--South America--Exhibitions.
University of Pennsylvania.--Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Reina, Ruben E.
Kensinger, Kenneth M.
University of Pennsylvania. University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Notes:

"Volume accompanying an exhibition held at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

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

Series:

University Museum monograph ; 75

ISBN:

9780924171116
0924171111
9780924171123
092417112X
9780934718806
0934718806

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24144023

LCCN:

91024991

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)