Beadwork apron, of mainly red beads with rows of blue beads at the top and bottom, a short stringwork fringe and tie cords. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Beadwork apron, of mainly red beads with rows of blue beads at the top and bottom, a short stringwork fringe and tie cords. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana
Person: Field collector Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn; PRM source Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn
Date / Period: Date made: Before 06/1895
Date collected: By June 1895
Acquisition information: Donated: 1895
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material String, Process Beadwork, Process Woven
Dimensions: Width: max 312 mm, Length: max 163 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1895.11.22
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Personal letter from Everard Im Thurn to Mr Tyler regarding a visit to Oxford to talk over some objects donated. [EB 4/10/2001]
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)

Search terms: Ornament, Clothing, Apron, Waist Ornament, Groin-cover