Scarf

Item number Sf920 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Scarf composed of green, blue and grey bands on a red background with a central band and narrower bands of repeating white squares near both side selvedges. The central band features variations on diamonds, crosses, reverse curves and circles as well as one bird. Fringed at both ends.

History Of Use

Warp-faced fabrics with three or four selvedges are woven by women but the fabrics the techniques, structures and some of the motifs have pre-Conquest antecedents. This type of textile conveys the most information about an individual's ethnicity, sex, age, status, and particular history. Scarves of different types are worn on various occasions. The 4 village authorities wear red scarves on their left shoulder. At weddings, men wear scarves around their necks. For Feb. 1 carnival, men wear them diagonally across the chest and back, fastened at the side of the waist. Not worn on an everyday basis.

Cultural Context

specific occasions;men

Iconographic Meaning

The range of motifs refers to local geography and landmarks, ecology, fecundity as well as luck. The six part circle refers to the division of land into six sections on Taquile and the rotation of crops and fallow periods. The cross and diamond filled with parallel lines refer to the furrows of the tilled fields.

Narrative

Bought from Silvia Yucra Huatta who made it. It has not been used but it would have been used by her husband, if she had not sold it.

Specific Techniques

Weave structures are the following: 1-plain colour areas are warp faced plain weave. 2- figurative designs; complementary-warp weave with 3-span floats aligned in alternate pairs with an irregular (abbabaab) warping order (3/1 horizontal colour changes and diagonals of 2-span floats). 3- stripe with squares; float weave derived from turned 2/1 horizontal herringbone with floats forming squares.

Item History

Made by Silvia Yucra Huatta (Maker) in Taquile, Puno, Peru during 1982
Collected by Mary Frame during 1982
Owned by Mary Frame before February 10, 1983
Received from Mary Frame (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Shop Volunteers (Funding source) on February 10, 1983