Carrying Cloth

Item number Sf809 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

A complete square cloth of white cotton with four corner ornaments, a fringed border and tassels on each corner. Two red brocade corner ornaments have yellow edgings which are wrapped and brocaded. Two yellow corner ornaments have red edgings. Two tassels are three-part, alternating red and white. Two tassels, which may be fragmentary, are single white ones. S-spun singles (cotton); z-spun singles (alpaca); z-spun, two plied s cotton and alpaca yarns.

History Of Use

The technical features of the yarns and weave structures coincides with those that define north coast weaving in this period Rowe). Cloths with 4 stepped corner ornaments are quite common throughout the coastal area in this period. Many cloths have oxidized areas in the centre which are consistent with having wrapped something perishable. Like a grave offering of food. Small cloths with corner tassels for tying are still used in the Andean area for valued personal and sacred possessions.