89 FIG. 11 (right): Man’s radial headdress, worn by men during the yãkwa ritual. Enawenê Nawê, Iquê River, Brazil. Second half of the 20th century. Plant fi bers, feathers, cotton fi bers. H: 147cm Houston Museum of Natural Science inv. 33.2012.090, promised gift of Antonio C. La Pastina and Dale A. Rice. FIG. 12 (below): Shuar shaman conducting a healing ritual, with the sick man’s family sitting nearby. In situ photograph by Donald H. Biery, Ecuador, 1955–1958. Courtesy of the Barr Collection. During the next four years, Dr. Braun was responsible for scheduling additional signifi cant exhibitions at the University of Florida in Gainesville; The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California; and the Peabody Museum at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In 1998, Lisa Rebori, vice president of collections at the HMNS, asked me to organize and curate the 1999 exhibition inaugurating the opening of the new Herzstein Exhibition Hall. Following the enthusiasm and overwhelming attendance (in excess of 400,000) generated by the exhibit, Truett Latimer, president of HMNS, fi rst expressed an interest in acquiring the collection for the museum. Prior to 1994, HMNS had fewer than 100 Amazonian objects in its collection. This number increased in 2000 when the museum acquired the School of American Research collection of Shuar material culture, the seventy-one objects of which were collected in the early 1940s. This collection included basketry, waist ornaments, beetle wing casings, ear and arm ornaments (fi g. 3), neck ornaments, fi shing implements, weapons, and a loom holding male and female woven cotton skirts. In 2001 material from the Mekler Collection was used for the exhibition Under the Canopy: Myth and Reality in Western and Northwestern Amazonia, shown at the Fresno Museum of Art and at the World Forestry Center. This exhibition included a catalog with contributions by Dirk Van Tuerenhout and Daniel M. Brooks. A centerpiece of this show was a recreation of the Ticuna tribe’s moça nova, which was their ritual initiation into adulthood of adolescent girls. This display included more than thirty body costumes and masks. During the opening, I was approached by Suzanne Nupen, an English teacher, who gave me a valuable written description accompanied by some thirty superb in situ photographs of this ritual, which she witnessed and documented in 1970. In 2002 HMNS completed the process initiated by Truett Latimer when it acquired the Mekler Collection, which by then numbered approximately 1,900 objects and included more than eighty full-body
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