Lot Essay
Cf. Braun, B. (Ed.), Arts of the Amazon, London, 1995, p.40, fig.59 for a similar cache sexe attributed to the Waiamiri-Atroari. Women wear such ornaments to cover their loins leaving their buttocks bare.
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A GUYANA LOOM-BEADED APRON AND A CARIB CACHE SEXE
The first of flared form, the pale blue beaded ground with key-pattern upper and lower borders in black beads, cotton tassel and red bead fringe, twisted cotton ties; the second with woven rows of scarlet beads and thick fringe of red and green beaded nut tassels
32.5cm. and 20cm. wide (2)
The first of flared form, the pale blue beaded ground with key-pattern upper and lower borders in black beads, cotton tassel and red bead fringe, twisted cotton ties; the second with woven rows of scarlet beads and thick fringe of red and green beaded nut tassels
32.5cm. and 20cm. wide (2)
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