Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 2005.650: 'Bookmark'.
Event Date 2005
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Field collection)
Gift from missionary schoolteachers Cees and Ineke Koelewijn. The maker is a woman from the village who takes part in the embroidery workshop directed by Mrs. Koelewijn. This is an example of alternative commercial products introduced by the missionaries to encourage industry and try to allow women greater access to cash, but with mitigated results, especially because the women entirely depend on the missionaries for access to the raw materials. In the absence of a genuine market for these products, the missionary couple buy them all and sell them to friends in Holland. According to the missionaries, the repeated design represents a squirrel; it is more likely to be squirrel monkey (saimiri sciureus), or possibly a dog.
Event Date 2005
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fanny Veys: 'The colours used for the embroidery are green, yellow, orange, red and purple, and use synthetic pigments.'
Event Date 13/6/2006
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Bookmark made of commercially produced cotton from Holland.
Event Date 11/5/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cotton bookmark with tassels at either end. Decorated on one face using cross-stitch forming five panels, each containing the profile of an abstracted four-legged animal with a long tail, possibly a squirrel monkey or a dog. The embroidery thread is purple, orange, green, red and yellow.
Event Date 3/11/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe