Object Details
Culture/People
Chayahuita (Chaywita)
Collector
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Previous owner
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Seller
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Collection History
Collected between 1965 and 1966 by Nicole H. Maxwell (1905-1998, a pioneering researcher of traditional South American Native medicine and ethnobotany from the 1940s through the 1980s); purchased by MAI from Nicole H. Maxwell in 1967.
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Date created
1960-1965
Catalog Number
23/9760
Barcode
239760.000
Object Type
Music and Sound
Object Name
Nose flute
Media/Materials
Nut/nuts
Techniques
Perforated
Place
Río Yanayacu, Río Huallaga valley; Chayahuitas; Alto Amazonas Province; Loreto Region; Peru
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Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Link to Original Record
Record ID
NMAI_254968