Latin American Textiles

© The Field Museum, A113100c

Accessioned in 1893 as part of the Columbian Exposition, this bead apron from Guyiana is called a "queyu." This was made of seeds, bark-cloth or cotton fringe in the past and worn tied around the waist. Today they are made on a simple bead loom, almost invariably of imported glass beads, each tribe having its particular type of design.

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