A Jivaro head dress Ecuador with a cotton head band and eight rows of vertical bones with seed...

A Jivaro head dress

Ecuador

with a cotton head band and eight rows of vertical bones with seed spacers and with a beetle wing fringe, with a hand written label rare specimen, 1 Jayocuncha made by Jibaros, Indians of Ecuador from the wing bones of Tayo - a bird, & wing covers of a beetle - worn at the back.

96cm long.

Provenance

Alex Arthur, Brussels, June 2000.