Seeds and cutter for bead making - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44419 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Omphalea diandra | Entry Book Number | 62/64.1893 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds and cutter for bead making | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Suriname | TDWG Region | Suriname | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds and cutter for bead making | Geography Description | Guiana, Paramaribo | ||
| Uses | Seeds and cutter for bead makingUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wyndham Consul | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Thierry MQx0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Seeds and cutter used for making beads, beads from the shells of the seeds. Beadsfrom Thierry, Grand Riviere, Martinique 18/4/93 Opuscular source: Letter to Consul Wyndham from Benjamino, Paramaribo, 21Oct 1891. Since I received your lette, r of June 3, I have been trying to find the origin of Ouabe beads. I have interviewed bush negroes of upper Marowyne and also gold diggers from the Lawa. All agree that the beads are from a tribe of Indians called Trios living on the upper Lawa abo, ve the settlements of the bush negroes. My opinion is that the beads are not a manufacture but some natural product. They are called avroe and in Cayenne Ouabe gros. There is another kind of beads called in Cayenne Ouabe fin, and in this colony Arewepie, , made by the Indians on the Upper Marowynefrom the shell of a nut. I send a specimen and the instrument for making them. Necklaces can easily be bought here. | ||||