Beadwork apron, decorated with dark blue geometric designs on a white background, with a short red beadwork fringe and tie cords. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Beadwork apron, decorated with dark blue geometric designs on a white background, with a short red beadwork fringe and tie cords. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana
Cultural groups: Macusi
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material String, Process Beadwork, Process Woven, Process Strung
Dimensions: Height: max 110 mm, Width: max 270 mm bottom
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.64.37 PR Cat other PR nos: ? 1734
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, industrial occupations, and social institutions. Thomas Murray & Co., Glasgow, 1866) (Laura Peers, 16/11/2007)

Search terms: Clothing, Bead, Apron, Skirt, Groin-cover

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