Description

Tungurahua-style Corpus Christi band made of an embroidered yellow silk panel sewn onto a burlap backing and then lined with orange cotton cloth that wraps around to form a framing edge. Embroidered motifs are in red, blue, brown, orange, maroon, pink, black, beige and green wool and include flowers, birds, deer, llamas, men hunting, musicians playing the harp, trumpet and drums, and a couple dancing. Small translucent and silver discs of plastic have been sewn into the middle of the design and a border of wide strips of gold foil paper is attached to the sides, with long yellow stitches on three sides and machine stitching on the fourth.