Kayapó Headdress: a glimpse of life in the Amazon rainforest

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Kayap? Headdress: a glimpse of life in the Amazon rainforest발음듣기

(piano music) [Voiceover] I'm in the British Museum with Jago Cooper, and we're looking at this gorgeous, brilliant yellow headdress.발음듣기

[Voiceover] So yeah, this is a Kayapo headdress.발음듣기

It's actually quite big. It's probably almost a meter in height and maybe 60cm in width.발음듣기

[Voiceover] The interior space is larger than a human head.발음듣기

[Voiceover] It is, but surprisingly this was actually worn by children.발음듣기

So, this is a headdress that is used as a rite of passage ceremony.발음듣기

There would have been a string across the middle, and it would be wrapped around the child's head.발음듣기

[Voiceover] It's in such good condition.발음듣기

[Voiceover] This object came in in 1990.발음듣기

So it's actually quite a recent acquisition.발음듣기

[Voiceover] So this is not an ancient object.발음듣기

This is a 20th century object.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] And this is because these people were being displaced by a dam.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] And the Xingu is a tributary of the Amazon River.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

This is a river and landscape in deep tropical forests.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

But it comes from a time period of great change.발음듣기

[Voiceover] These yellow feathers are gorgeous.발음듣기

Are they dyed? Or are these natural colors? 발음듣기

[Voiceover] These are all natural colors.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

So those red and blue feathers at the top are from a Macaw.발음듣기

And the yellow feathers are from a Psarocolius Decumanus.발음듣기

It's the scientific name for these species of birds.발음듣기

[Voiceover] I don't have those in my backyard.발음듣기

[Voiceover] No, I don't think many people do.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

They're not hunted in the wild always.발음듣기

Do we know what the case is for this?발음듣기

[Voiceover] I don't know whether these were domesticated birds.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

Because are these living in cages? No.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

That the animals and birds that live in the community.발음듣기

And that ties in with this theme of environmental management.발음듣기

[Voiceover] It's really interesting, because from my western perspective, I immediately think of either something being, basically, caged or hunted.발음듣기

So there's this really much more respectful middle ground.발음듣기

[Voiceover] And this is fundamental to this whole culture.발음듣기

They feel they've managed this landscape successfully for thousands of years.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

[Voiceover] So how was this used? What does this mean? 발음듣기

[Voiceover] So these objects are not normally worn everyday.발음듣기

This particular featherwork and other types of headdress are used for special occasions,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

And the child would be given this headdress to wear.발음듣기

[Voiceover] This is before adolescence. 발음듣기

[Voiceover] Yes, before adolescence. Every time that you look at an object you look through your own cultural references.발음듣기

These people look at a bird.발음듣기

When they see this, they see the birds.발음듣기

They see the life of that bird and the myths surrounding that bird and that is what they see.발음듣기

They see their own cultural references, which are very focused in the forest.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

[Voiceover] Yes. And also the object, how it's created, who's made this object ...발음듣기

Is it made by the family, or by a priest?발음듣기

That is the meaning of the object, so when the person looks at it ...발음듣기

[Voiceover] So let's take a really close look at it.발음듣기

The feathers are closely overlapped so there's this real dense quality to that color.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

[Voiceover] Everything is made from natural plant materials and animals.발음듣기

So this is a tradition of techniques that could have gone back for thousands of years.발음듣기

There's no sort of European introduced technology going on here.발음듣기

It's showing how these technologies are passed down through the generations.발음듣기

And so it's combining the feathers with plant materials and naturally produced fibers that bind it all together.발음듣기

[Voiceover] Here we're seeing it laid flat.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

The feather would be catching the wind.발음듣기

It's flat and it would function a little like a sail.발음듣기

And so this is all in motion.발음듣기

[Voiceover] Absolutely. You can see the lights reflecting off it there.발음듣기

And that gives every object a different quality. (piano music) 발음듣기

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