2011.109.27

Collection type

Object

Description

Head ornament for dancing made with loop of cane covered with white cotton and decorated with pom-poms and bird feathers. [FB 09/01/2012]

Long description

Head ornament for dancing made with loop of cane covered with white cotton and decorated with pom-poms and bird feathers. The circular cane loop worn on the head is undecorated but covered with white cotton. Attached is a decorative trailer consisting of lengths of twisted white cotton and strings beaded with white, light blue and dark blue seed beads with red cotton tassels attached. On the length of white cotton downy white and brown bird feathers have been attached at intervals. On the end of the string is a piece of black bird feather on skin. The trailer, at the back of the head falls to the small of the back, between the shoulder blades. [FB 09/01/2012]

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 Pigment, Material Cane Plant, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Material Bead, Material Glass, Material Bird Feather, Process Twisted, Process Tied, Process Knotted, Process Stitched, Process Perforated, Process Dyed

Dimensions

Diameter: max 175 mm, Length: max 550 mm of trailer

Object numbers

Accession number: 2011.109.27

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: Ornament, Clothing Headgear, Dance, Trade, Ritual and Ceremonial, Head Ornament, Dance Accessory, Ceremonial Object