Bead apron. Made from white, blue and red glass beads woven into three bands in varying patterns. There is a fringe on the lower edge of the apron and two long tassels on the side of the apron for tying it together. [ASh [OPS move] 9/12/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bead apron. Made from white, blue and red glass beads woven into three bands in varying patterns. There is a fringe on the lower edge of the apron and two long tassels on the side of the apron for tying it together. [ASh [OPS move] 9/12/2016]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana; Mazaruni River
Cultural groups: Pemón
Person: Field collector Audrey Butt Colson; PRM source Audrey Butt Colson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1957
Date collected: April - September 1957
Acquisition information: Donated: 1958
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Beadwork, Process Woven
Dimensions: Width: max 152 mm, Length 295 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1958.3.75
Research and responses: 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, Trade, Apron, Groin-cover

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