Square-shaped hat of woven cotton cloth over a reed frame decorated with multicolored mosaic feather-work. The feathers were glued to thin bark or fiber cloth and cut precisely into the required shapes. Then they were glued to the fiber cloth stretched over the reed framework. The design consists of crested jaguar heads that alternate with step patterns and triangles contained in squares. The design on the top of the hat is four triangles with step frets within. Condition: good; some losses.

Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund

Face neck jar with polychrome decoration on red-brown slip. The vessel is bottle-shaped with a bulbous body and a tall, narrow neck. The neck is decorated with a modeled human face with a feline figure painted on the nose and two condors painted below the eyes representing tear lines. The body of the jar is decorated with a standing male figure wearing an elaborate tunic and holding a staff in each hand. One staff is surmounted by a bird head, while the other is surmounted by an ear of corn. The man's face, which is in profile, is decorated with painted geometrical designs and an ear of corn hangs from the front of his headdress. Condition: good. Text by GdeH 9/2011: In the Andes, maize did not have as pronounced a ritual significance. The main function has been its transformation into chica, a ceremonial drink of significant alcoholic content still produced and used for ritual events and feasts. During pre-Columbian times, corn, along with cotton, was the basis of trade between the coastal lowlands and the high altitude areas of Peru which provided potatoes and wool. This face neck jar has been made by a highland civilization, the Wari, who were active around present day Arequipa, but its imagery includes corn, a coastal element. The figure on this jar is a man of high status as indicated by the designs on his tunic. An ear of corn dangles from his headdress, and another adorns the tip of one of his staffs. Images of condors and felines that can be seen on his face are typically associated with power, and from these clues, it is possible to say that this figure’s imagery relating to corn is evidence of its importance to the Wari people.

The brown and off-white woven textile has four panels featuring a beaver-like creature. Each panel is filled by a beaver-like creature with a tall tail, large teeth, one arm raised and one arm out-stretched. The panel is otherwise decorated with triangles, crosses, dots and many stitches inside boxes. Two panels adjacent are mirror images of one another. In the same way, the lower panels are mirror images of the two upper panels. Above the panels there are two smaller, separated squares with partial designs.

A piece of red tapestry with two frontal humans in a vertical row. They are yellow, red, blue, green, black and white but in varying proportions. They wear an elaborate headdress and a flaring tunic. Feet are splayed and arms and hands are raised. The background for the first figure is red, the background for the second is green. Multicoloured squares attached with a common line make up the border on two sides of the figures. At the finished end of the textile, there is a yellow fringe attached to the red tapestry.

A small abstract multicoloured textile. The sections are separated by white lines in a diamond shape and the diamond shapes are separated by vertical white lines. The background section colours are red, pink, light green, dark green, light brown and black. The shapes within the sections are random and multicoloured half circles, steps and squares. Two of the edges appear to have been cut.

The textile is a deep red with a centre panel of woven figures. The centre panel has three complete squares and three partial squares. Each square has a background colour of deep red, light brown, dark brown or blue. The figure within the square has a triangular head with an appendage to each side, large eyes, extended arms and square feet. The figures are woven in blue, red, white, light and dark brown.

Triangular woven handle fans out towards the end. Thick layers of orange-yellow feathers adorn the end. Handle has several sections of horizontal stitching.