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Textile3332/6

Long narrow textile with three roundels with mirror at centre evenly spaced across fabric. Backed with colourful calico fabric. Silver fibre decorations.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
glass, silver metal, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/3

Thin rectangular silk textile with silk embroidery and a reddish-brown cotton backing. Edged with short fringe in sections of yellow, red, orange, green, and light green. The edge is also decorated by metal(?) thread.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
cotton fibre, metal, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Leggings3332/8 a-b

Leggings made of a heavy fabric, covered entirely in deep red embroidery. One end is edged with a thick border of brown. Each legging is heavily embroidered with a variety of techniques - red and dark green plaiting, red with geometric design cross-stitch, and intricate embroidery organic designs at top divided by two rows of metallic threads.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
metal, cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan3332/42

Fan composed of a painted wooden handle, and a separately woven blade. The blade is decorated around the edge with bands of fabric, which are covered with various needlepoint designs. The edges are lined with black-brown fringe and white beads, which carries over to a diamond-shaped centre design. Also decorated with long tassels in dark red, dark purple, dark blue, gold and dark green. The blade is decorated the same on both sides.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair Tie2878/65 a-b

A pair of dark green cloth ties. Each tie is in three sections, each section made up of several strings, all of which are tied together at one end. At the opposite end from the knot, each of the three groups of strings are brought together and then wrapped in colourful thread with a different coloured pattern for each group. At the end of each section, below the colourful thread, are many smaller strings, each with a bead on the end. Two of the groups have blue beads, while one has white beads.

Culture
Pashtun: Kuchi
Material
cotton fibre and glass ?
Made in
Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ring2878/22

Wide, silver band with three round, dangling ornaments. Around the band of the ring there is a floral or quatrefoil design. On the front of the ring there is a triangular, crown-like extension with a loop at the tip. There is also a loop at the base of the crown from which a ring and three dangles are hanging. The dangling ornaments are all round with a loop to attach onto the ring.

Culture
Pashtun: Kuchi
Material
silver metal
Made in
Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bracelet2878/21

Silver, cuff-style women's bracelet. There are seven triangular-shaped protrusions extending along the base of the bracelet, at the end of which there is a rounded tip. Between each protrusion is a rounded, linear shape with lines incised across the length. Just before the ends of the bracelet (at the opening) there is a carved pattern of two lines of circular shapes, followed by a smooth finish on the rounded ends.

Culture
Pashtun: Kuchi
Material
silver metal
Made in
Northwest Frontier, Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Chadri Shawl2878/20

Large, black women's shawl, or veil, with a rectangular embroidery panel centred along the straight edge (when worn this panel falls around the head/face of the wearer). There are four main sections to the design of the panel which are separated by gold stitching: the section closest to the outer edge is two lines of red and green cotton; the largest section of design has light orange, green and red cotton sewn into the embroidery, the main pattern of which consists of gold diamond and rectangular shapes; on the outer edge of the four sections there are triangle and arrow shapes. On the interior of the semi-circular shawl, around the top, there is a small piece of cotton material with a blue background and red and green flowers, sewn as a lining where the shawl would rest on top of the wearer's head. The inside edges of the shawl are also lined: the front seams are lined with a narrow strip of red fabric, and the bottom seams are lined with a narrow strip of blue fabric. On the exterior surface of the shawl, extending out from the central embroidery panel, there is a hand-sewn geometric design consisting of three V-shaped sets of linear patterns. Each of these is a different colour (from closest to the embroidery panel out: light blue, light orange and light yellow). All three consist of two lines and there are flower-like designs sewn on the outside edge of each of the lines. The yellow lines, which are the closest to the bottom of the shawl, have two snail shell designs that extend down from the two main lines.

Culture
Pashtun: Kuchi
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress Panel Textile1201/30

Densely embroidered square textile, stitched overall with meandering patterns worked in orange thread in chain stitch on a background of purple silk or cotton textile. The design field is divided into four equally sized squares, separated from one another with rows of narrow gold metallic braid. The textile is embellished with five large (4 cm) ornamental discs, made from several layers of black cotton textile, topped with a layer of red cotton textile and embellished with white cowrie shells, blue glass beads and white shell buttons; one of these discs is located at the centre of each of the four sides of the textile, and there is one in the centre. The textile is edged with blue and white glass beading on all four sides. The embroidery is backed with a layer of dark red cotton textile.

Culture
Pashtun
Material
glass, cotton fibre, dye, silk fibre, shell, metal and cowrie shell
Made in
Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair Bag811/18

Long, flat, tapered, embroidered bag made of black cotton textile, embellished on one side with clusters of flowers, leaves and stems. The wide end of the bag is open and there is a 37 cm narrow loop of the same black cotton textile attached at either end of the opening. The closed, narrow end of the bag is embellished with bands of embroidery, sequins, glass beads and cotton fringe.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
cotton fibre, dye, metal, glass and silk fibre
Made in
Ghazni, Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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