Cloth Item Number: Sf917 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Cloth, rectangular, woven from red wool with three wider and two narrower bands of green and red geometric, fish and bird figure motifs on off-white flanked by multicoloured stripes.
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. Are used by both sexes. Rectangular cloths of this size are worn hanging from the waist by women for some fiesta dances, for example the 24th of June and Pentecost. They are woven over top of many layered skirts. Two hip cloths are worn in conjunction with a shoulder cloth.
Cultural Context
fiesta dancing
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.
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 striated diamond and cross refer to the raised furrows of tilled fields.
Narrative
Made and used by Candelaria Cruz Machaca.
Item History
- Made by Candelaria Cruz Machaca (Maker) in Taquile, Puno, Peru before May 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
What
- Name
- Cloth
- Identification Number
- Sf917
- Type of Item
- cloth
- Material
- synthetic fibre, wool fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- woven, spun, dyed, sewn and plied
- Overall
- height 44.0 cm, width 48.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Quechua
- Creator
- Candelaria Cruz Machaca (Maker)
- Field Collector
- Mary Frame
- Previous Owner
- Mary Frame
- Received from
- Mary Frame (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Shop Volunteers (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Taquile, Puno, Peru
When
- Creation Date
- before May 1982
- Collection Date
- during 1982
- Ownership Date
- before February 10, 1983
- Acquisition Date
- on February 10, 1983
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0861/0026