Description

Hanging band from the shoulder pole of a Cotopaxi-style Corpus Christi costume. Made of two long embroidered orange silk panels sewn together back-to-back, with a turquoise cloth edging on the two long sides, and attached with long stitches to a lining made of several pieces of purple and unbleached cotton cloth. Embroidered motifs differ on each side; red, pink, blue, brown, white, orange and green flowers, a figure, and a bird on the side with yellow slk top band and pink, black, white, orange and blue flowers, three figures and a monkey on the other. At the bottom end on one side is a band of silver paper outlined with pink wool from which hang strands of green wool.