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Plate IVB Amazon: Top: Yanomamo neck.lace of ormosia and Job's tears seeds, with Pirarucu scales. Bottom: Piraha necklace with Crown Snail shell (all photos by author). Plate IVC Amazon: Top: Kayapo necklace of bamboo tubes and ormosia seeds with tortoise scute and pendants of glass beads tipped with tucum palm fruit kernels and red macaw feathers. Bottom: Ear ornaments of Rough Andean Jewel Beetle wing cases, worn by Shuar men. Plate VA Amazon: Rigid Kayapo necklace of iridescent cut musselshell plaques. The tassels are dyed orange-brown with urucu. The pendants are dark blue, red, and white glass beads with cut tucum palm fruit kernels. Plate VB Amazon: Necklace pendant of Giant Armadillo claws, pierced through the tips and hung from a pair of cotton-wrapped sticks. The lower pendants are of dark blue glass beads, cut tucum palm fruit kernels, and multi-colored feathers of the Blue-and-yellow Macaw. Plate VC Amazon: Aguaruna Shuar necklace of unidentifiable black seeds and cut bone tubes. The inner strand has tufts of toucan feathers, Paca petrosals, and a rodent tooth. The outer strand has only black seeds, and tapir hooves. Plate VD Amazon: Kayapo necklace of porcupine quills. The central feathers are probably macaw. Plate VIA Amazon: Top: Close-up of beads on a Bororo necklace. The feathers on the one bead are unidentified; the spacer bead is an ormosia seed. Bottom: Urubu-Ka'apor necklace of bird ulnas and toucan feathers. After the bones are drilled and strung, a cord is cross-lashed around each bone to give the necklace stability. Plate VIB Amazon: Top: Kayapo Boat-billed Heron beak pendant with glass beads, ormosia seeds, black feathers, and red feathers (macaw). Bottom: Oiampii headband incorporating a Plum-throated Cotinga. The headband is made of a flexible strip of split palm stem, and the toucan feathers lashed on with native cotton cord. Plate VIC Amazon: Urubu-Ka'apor woman's necklace. Women also wear wristlets made of similar, smaller pendants. Plate VID Amazon: Close-up of Urubu-Ka' apor composite pendant. Only a moving picture with sound does this piece justice.
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