Belt
Item number Sf909 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number Sf909 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Belt with a large central patterned band, smaller lateral bands, blue and green lines flanking each lateral band, and a red, green and white band with squares that flanks the centre band and green. One end is fringed with braided threads tied together with a re-plied cord. The central band contains bird, fish and geometric motifs, and the lateral bands contain geometric motifs. The remainder of the belt is red.
Warp-faced fabrics with three or four selvedges are woven by women but the fabrics, the techniques, the 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. Used in the Sikuri dance, by both sexes, performed June 24, El Dia de Campesino, during the community fair, July 25 - Aug. 5, and on some Catholic holidays. The Sikuri dancers wear braided wigs, feathered hats, and play the pan-pipes while doing very structured, traditional dances.
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.
Sikuri dance.
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.
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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.
Sikuri dance.
Warp-faced fabrics with three or four selvedges are woven by women but the fabrics, the techniques, the 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. Used in the Sikuri dance, by both sexes, performed June 24, El Dia de Campesino, during the community fair, July 25 - Aug. 5, and on some Catholic holidays. The Sikuri dancers wear braided wigs, feathered hats, and play the pan-pipes while doing very structured, traditional dances.
Belt with a large central patterned band, smaller lateral bands, blue and green lines flanking each lateral band, and a red, green and white band with squares that flanks the centre band and green. One end is fringed with braided threads tied together with a re-plied cord. The central band contains bird, fish and geometric motifs, and the lateral bands contain geometric motifs. The remainder of the belt is red.
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.
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