Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Bead apron

Guyana

 

Collected by James Williams

Given to the Museum in 1941

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Bead apron, Guyana

In the Americas, glass was unknown before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century. As a result, when they were first introduced glass beads were treated as rare and precious objects. This red, white, and blue bead apron was collected in Guyana, in South America, in the first half of the twentieth century.

View database record 1941.3.3