- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Beadwork apron, of plain yellow beads, with a short yellow beadwork fringe and with tie cords. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Macusi
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1941
- Date collected
- By 1941
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material String, Process Beadwork, Process Woven, Process Strung
- Dimensions
- Width: max 460 mm, Length: max 215 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.3.2
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - See 'List of Macusi Native Indian Curios from Rupununni, British Guiana. Presented by the wife of the late Rev. James Williams. A.K.C. F.R. Hist: S. Missionary to these Indians for 5 years.' Handwritten note at the bottom of the list: 'The page numbers on the cards refer to the pages in "Among the Indians of Guiana" by Im Thurn. Where quotations are given concerning most of these curios.' [GI 19/12/2001]
Peter Riviere has supplied the following information about beaded women's aprons from British Guyana: 'On highdays and holidays, or festivals, the only covering which the females wore was the quieyoo, an article of dress, worked out of seeds of trees, about ten inches long, and six or eight broad, hung in front of the person by a string fastened round the loins. These are now tastefully worked with beads to represent the flowers, fruits and animals around the Indians in the bush, and will cost from six to ten shillings when sold to Europeans.' (p. 261, Rev Robert Duff, British Guiana, being notes on a few of its natural productions, industiral occupations, and social institutions. Thomas Murray & Co., Glasgow, 1866) (Laura Peers, 16/11/2007)
Search terms: Clothing, Bead, Ornament, Apron, Waist Ornament, Groin-cover