Beaded woman's apron made with white cotton and blue, white and red beads. [FB 03/01/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Beaded woman's apron made with white cotton and blue, white and red beads. [FB 03/01/2012]
Long description: Beaded girl's apron made with white cotton and blue,white and red beads. The apron is made with round European blue, white and red seed beads which have been woven to form a geometric Greek key pattern in a band at the top and bottom of the apron with narrow bands of red beads. The central design of the apron is a block of blue beads with a singular red bead and vertical rows of blue beads and cotton on both sides. The bottom of the apron is edged with white cotton fringing. At the top of the apron at the top corner are six beaded strands of cotton, two white, two red and two blue. At the other corner are three strands of twisted white cotton. These are used to secure the apron to the wearer. [FB 03/01/2012]
Geographical reference: Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Gran Sabana Estado Bolivar
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 350 mm, Length: max 530 mm excluding ties
Object numbers: Accession number: 2011.109.11
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