Carrying Cloth Item Number: 3486/137 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
A small carrying cloth (unkuñita) with clusters of tassels on the four corners, a tubular woven edging, and a pattern band down the centre with compressed diamonds (cocha).
A type of carrying cloth used by men for sheltering offerings after they were prepared and before they were burned.
The pattern is woven in a supplementary warp weave that the weavers call “ley”. Woven with four finished edges on an Indigenous loom.
Purchased by the donor in the Pisac market in 1982.
The cloth has animal attributes (legs, eyes and heart) that suggest it is conceptualized as a living being.