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2011.109.8

Multi stranded necklaces tied together. [FB 03/01/2012]

2011.109.8

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Collection type
Object
Description
Multi stranded necklaces tied together. [FB 03/01/2012]
Long description
Multi stranded necklaces tied together. The necklaces have been strung with round European glass seed beads in red, white and blue and some of the strands have additional dangling lengths of beads ending in shell or red and black abrus seeds. [FB 03/01/2012]
Cultural groups
Pemón
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Audrey Butt Colson
Date
Acquisition information
Donated: 12/11/2011
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Bead, Material Shell, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Process Perforated, Process Twisted, Process Tied
Dimensions
Length: max 500 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 2011.109.8
Research and responses

Most of the collection was given to Audrey Butt-Colson by Revd. Fr Cesáreo de Armellada: A Spanish, Capuchin missionary working in Venezuela, notable with the Pemon Indians of the Gran Sabana (from 1933 into the 1980s with only a few years in other areas), in Estado Bolivar. [FB 03/01/2012]

Search terms: Bead, Body Art, Dance, Trade, Neck Ornament, Status Object, Dance Accessory

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