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2011.109.12

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

2011.109.12

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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 woman's apron made with white cotton and blue, white and red beads. The apron is woven with white cotton and made from the traditional colours of blue, white and red European round seed beads. The top and bottom edge of the apron has been decorated with a band of geometric Greek key design. The central design of the apron is a block of blue beads. The bottom edge of the apron also has a band of five rows of chequered effect alternating red and white beads. The bottom of the apron is edged with white cotton fringing. Both sides of the apron have been decorated with red and blue cotton pom-poms. The belt of the apron consists of nine beaded strands of cotton, four red, four blue and one white with two perforated bone separators. The bottom corners of the apron have been ornamented with shell/nut casing jangles threaded on beaded cotton and lose dangling strands of pink and white cotton. [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, Material Plant Seed, Material Bone, Process Twisted, Process Dyed, Process Tied, Process Perforated, Process Woven, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Width: max 235 mm, Length: max 470 mm excluding ties
Object numbers
Accession number: 2011.109.12
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