Beadwork apron in dark blue, white and red designs. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Beadwork apron in dark blue, white and red designs. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana; Upper Mazaruni
Cultural groups: Akawaio
Person: Field collector Leslie Rooney; PRM source Daphne Seggar; PRM source Audrey Butt Colson
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1949-1955
Date collected: circa 1949 - 1955
Acquisition information: Donated: 1994
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Woven, Process Beadwork
Dimensions: Height: max 170 mm, Width: max 340 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1994.10.4.2
Research and responses: Peter Riviere has supplied the following information about beaded women's aprons from British Guyana: 'On highdays and holidays, or festivals, the only covering which the females wore was the quieyoo, an article of dress, worked out of seeds of trees, about ten inches long, and six or eight broad, hung in front of the person by a string fastened round the loins. These are now tastefully worked with beads to represent the flowers, fruits and animals around the Indians in the bush, and will cost from six to ten shillings when sold to Europeans.' (p. 261, Rev Robert Duff, British Guiana, being notes on a few of its natural productions, industiral occupations, and social institutions. Thomas Murray & Co., Glasgow, 1866) (Laura Peers, 16/11/2007)

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