| 释义 |
‖ queyu|ˈkweɪuː|
Also keweyu, kuyu, kway, queyou, etc.
[Guyana Creole, app. from a Cariban language.]
In Guyana and neighbouring regions, a small apron-like garment worn by the women of certain Amerindian peoples, consisting of a panel of coloured beads set in intricate geometrical patterns and surrounded by a fringe of cotton.
1796J. G. Stedman Narr. Five Years' Exped. I. xv. 386 The women wear an apron of cotton, with party-coloured glass beads strung upon it, which they call queiou. This covering is no great size, being only one foot in breadth by eight inches in length..but being heavy..it answers all the purposes for which it was intended. 1806G. Pinckard Notes on West Indies II. 444 Sometimes, instead of the band, the women use a small apron about three or four inches square, which being tied around the waste [sic], and left to hang loose before, serves by way of a fig-leaf. These aprons they call kways. 1866R. Duff Brit. Guiana xi. 261 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. 1867W. T. Veness El Dorado 141 ‘Cuyus’, or ‘Queyus’, the entire dress of Indian women, of the Accawai tribe. 1895Timehri June 144 The queyus too were remarkable owing to their small bead surface, the greater extent being taken up by wide cotton fringes. 1904W. H. Hudson Green Mansions v. 71 Oalava herself would be ready to bestow her person—queyou, worn fig-leaf-wise, necklace of accouri teeth, and all—on so worthy a suitor as myself. 1912J. Rodway Guiana 216 Geometrical patterns of most intricate lines are found on basket-work, old pottery, queyus or aprons, and on their [sc. the Indians'] painted faces. 1923W. E. Roth tr. R. Schomburgk's Trav. Brit. Guiana, 1840–1844 II. xii. 379 The queyu of the woman was made out of seed pips. 192438th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. xxi. 446 The Creole terms kway.., queyu, kuyu, etc., applied to the glass-bead apron, is [sic] apparently identical with that of the original cotton loin-cloth guayuco of the Orinoco Indians. 1964V. G. C. Norwood Jungle Life in Guiana v. 99 The commonest form of covering adopted by Indian women generally is a small apron made from..coloured glass beads strung on cotton strands, this latter form originally Acawoian, called a ‘quayo’. 1965J. Yde Material Culture of Waiwái 199 The bead apron, keweyu.., is as indispensable a garment to the women as is the kamisa to the men. |