Over Dress
Item number 3486/139 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 3486/139 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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An over dress (aksu) with designs of hooks, diagonal lines, offset triangles and a dimaond combined with hooks.
The aksu is an asymmetrical garment that is worn over top of a full dress made of bayeta. The lower panel generally has more coloured and patterned bands than the upper panel. The upper panel is worn folded over the bodice and pinned at one shoulder. The aksu wraps only partly around the woman’s body with the seam at the waist, over which a belt is worn. It displays the typical patterns and colours of the community where it was woven and worn.
Purchased by the donor in 1983 in Sucre, Bolivia from the shop of Elizabeth Rojas.
Woven in a complementary warp weave on an Indigenous loom, probably a staked-out ground loom.
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Purchased by the donor in 1983 in Sucre, Bolivia from the shop of Elizabeth Rojas.
An over dress (aksu) with designs of hooks, diagonal lines, offset triangles and a dimaond combined with hooks.
The aksu is an asymmetrical garment that is worn over top of a full dress made of bayeta. The lower panel generally has more coloured and patterned bands than the upper panel. The upper panel is worn folded over the bodice and pinned at one shoulder. The aksu wraps only partly around the woman’s body with the seam at the waist, over which a belt is worn. It displays the typical patterns and colours of the community where it was woven and worn.
Woven in a complementary warp weave on an Indigenous loom, probably a staked-out ground loom.
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