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2011.109.9

Beaded apron made with pink cotton and blue and white beads. [FB 03/01/2012]

2011.109.9

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Collection type
Object
Description
Beaded apron made with pink cotton and blue and white beads. [FB 03/01/2012]
Long description
Beaded apron made with pink cotton and blue and white beads. The apron is made with round European blue and white seed beads with a geometric pattern in blue beads at the top and bottom edge of the apron. The apron has been woven in non native pink trade cotton and has a length of twisted cotton at the top to tie around the waist. There is pink fringing at the bottom edge of the apron. [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 Pigment, Process Twisted, Process Dyed, Process Tied, Process Perforated, Process Woven, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Width: max 150 mm, Length: max 240 mm excluding ties
Object numbers
Accession number: 2011.109.9
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, Apron, Dance Accessory

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