ART ON VIEW 9922 FIG. 17 (above): Headdress with a nape, myhara. Rikbaktsá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Second half of the 20th century. Woven cotton, cotton fi ber, human hair, feathers. H: 66 cm. Collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, inv. 40.2015.25. This may be a variant of the Munduruku cap/headdress and nape. FIG. 18 (left): Shaman’s hood. Campa, Apurimac River. Peru and Brazil. Mid 20th century. Cotton fi ber, plant fi bers, seeds, annatto pigment, nutshells, mammal and bird parts. H: 84 cm. Collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, inv. 40.2015.09. Worn during healing rituals, the various mammal and bird parts of this hood imbue the shaman with their spirit power, hence making him ever more powerful. donation also includes shaman bags and their paraphernalia for the use of yopo during healing ceremonies, a rare modifi ed Puma skull scepter, shaman stools, neck ornaments, peccary masks, baskets, rattles, utilitarian implements, and weaponry. A major addition to the HMNS holdings came in 2009 with the gifting and promised gifts of the Antonio C. La Pastina and Dale A. Rice Collection. Dr. La Pastina fi rst became aware of the Mekler Collection through the 1995 Arts of the Amazon publication. He closely followed the progress of subsequent exhibitions that highlighted objects from the Mekler Collection. The La Pastina–Rice Collection numbers well over a thousand objects, which complement the museum’s holdings. It includes a remarkable array of basketry as well as utilitarian objects used in cooking, planting, weaving, and fi shing. It also encompasses a vast assortment of musical instruments, including fl utes, whistles, horns, trumpets, drums, and noise-producing waist ornaments and rattles, as well as numerous combinations of body decorations (such as labrets; ear, arm, leg, and waist ornaments; combs; bandoleers; and hair ornaments). The La Pastina–Rice Collection also includes rare Enawenê Nawê material, such as neck ornaments and headdresses worn during the yãkwa ritual (fi g. 11), and fl utes that identify each of the tribe’s clans. In addition to the museum’s object collection, it now has hundreds of fi eld photographs, which are currently being scanned. The majority of the images were given to me by Dr. Russell Mittermeier and Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier and document the Xingu-area tribes and the Kayapó, Hoti, Tiriyo, Wayana Apalai, and Yanomamö. Michael Stuart and Dr. Peter Seligman have also donated photographs of the Yanomamö and the Shipibo-Conibo. HMNS is fortunate to own a unique fi lm by Frederick Hardenbrook taken in 1940 among the Wayana Apalai that documents
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