Kayap? Headdress: a glimpse of life in the Amazon rainforest발음듣기
Kayapó Headdress: a glimpse of life in the Amazon rainforest
(piano music) [Voiceover] I'm in the British Museum with Jago Cooper, and we're looking at this gorgeous, brilliant yellow headdress.발음듣기
There would have been a string across the middle, and it would be wrapped around the child's head.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Exactly right. It came in in 1990, after a lot of tension on the Kayapo about a dam building project in the region that brought the world's attention to this very, very remote place.발음듣기
[Voiceover] There was a plan to build a dam in the region off the water tributes of the Xingu, and so these people became the focus of the world's attention.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Right. So we're basically in the south central portion of the Amazon, between the upper and lower Amazon, 발음듣기
and the Xingu is a big river which runs from the south into the Amazon, and the Kayapo live on the tributaries and on the banks of the Xingu.발음듣기
However, as expansion, and drive of industrialized life has encroached on the Amazon, this is one of those tribes who's been impacted upon.발음듣기
[Voiceover] So what we're seeing is an object that is from the 20th century, from an industrial era but from a people that have one foot in ancient culture and are also very cognizant of the way their world is changing.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Absolutely. What this object represents is a way of life that has existed for thousands of years, and the continuation of those practices.발음듣기
So you do get some feathers which are dyed by peoples in different parts of the world, but in the Amazon,발음듣기
because you get such wonderful birds, and such beautiful, brilliant colors, there's no need to dye them.발음듣기
It's incredible also thinking about the number of birds which are often used to create one of these.발음듣기
[Voiceover] When feathers are really precious things, sometimes the birds are actually cultivated.발음듣기
But I think what's interesting about that question is that it provides a different framework for understanding what is a domesticated animal.발음듣기
But are they brought in and sort of slightly domesticated by being fed and brought into the region and looked after?발음듣기
And not hunted? So it's about looking at the cultural practices which look after the flora and fauna around the community.발음듣기
[Voiceover] It's really interesting, because from my western perspective, I immediately think of either something being, basically, caged or hunted.발음듣기
And therefore they don't want change, and the fact that they're there and living such good lives is proof of that.발음듣기
and therefore the symbology that the symbols are held within this object have particular meaning.발음듣기
So we know that these objects are used for rites of passage, often in a naming ceremony, when the child would be given names, often at quite a young age.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Yes, before adolescence. Every time that you look at an object you look through your own cultural references.발음듣기
They see the life of that bird and the myths surrounding that bird and that is what they see.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And so the feathers of a particular bird are not simply being used for their color, but they're also being used for what the bird itself signifies.발음듣기
It's so saturated. And the quills are then bound together, first with red thread, and then blue, and then they disappear under this really complicated series of flat reeds.발음듣기
And so it's combining the feathers with plant materials and naturally produced fibers that bind it all together.발음듣기
But I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if it were suspended by a string from a child's head who's moving around.발음듣기
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