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The gift of birds: featherwork of native South American peoples
1991, The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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Table of Contents
Feather objects in culture / Ruben E. Reina
Why feathers? / Kenneth M. Kensinger
Ancient plumage : featherworking in precolumbian Peru / Kay L. Candler
An ancient Andean feathered headdress / Virginia Greene
Social and spiritual languages of feather art : the Bororo of Central Brazil / Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur
Feathers make us beautiful : the meaning of Cashinahua feather headdresses / Kenneth M. Kensinger
Fragments of the heavens : feathers as ornaments among the Waiwai / Catherine V. Howard
Feathers are for flying / Patricia J. Lyon
Feathers of blood & fire : the mythological origins of avian coloration / Jon F. Pressman
Crowns of power : bird and feather symbolism in Amazonian shamanism / Peter T. Furst
Harvesting feathers / Ruben E. Reina and Jon F. Pressman
Sources of feathers / Mark Robbins.
Edition Notes
Credits and brief biographies of contributors, p. 136-137.
Includes bibliographical references.
LC copy: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
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