Apron worn by women, consisting of a woven beadwork panel of red and blue geometric designs on a white background, with a short fringe of red beads and stringwork, and tie cords in the 4 corners. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Apron worn by women, consisting of a woven beadwork panel of red and blue geometric designs on a white background, with a short fringe of red beads and stringwork, and tie cords in the 4 corners. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana
Person: Field collector Marguerite Muriel Culpeper Pollard's uncle; PRM source Marguerite Muriel Culpeper Pollard
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1917
Date collected: By 1917
Acquisition information: Donated: 1917
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material String, Process Beadwork, Process Strung, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 578 mm frame, Height: max 272 mm frame
Object numbers: Accession number: 1917.15.3
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)

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

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