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Tigua Painting2903/52

Large Tigua painting depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The canvas itself is formed by a piece of skin stretched and nailed over a wooden frame. The back and outer sides of the frame are unpainted save for some drips of paint on the sides of the frame. At the top of the image there is a representation of god painted from the waist up. His torso, head and arms are suspended in the blue and white streaked sky. He has pink skin, black hair and a black mustache and beard. He wears a white, brown, orange and black outfit. There is a yellow substance or force being released downwards from his left hand. God looks down upon Adam and Eve in the lower right corner of the painting at the moment that Eve accepts an apple from the serpent. The green serpent is coiled around the brown trunk of an apple tree, left of Eve. Adam sits on a grey rock left of the tree with a white baby llama in his lap. Adam and Eve are both naked save for white bands of fabric around their waists. An orange lion with a brown mane stands in between the two and faces Adam, who gestures with his right hand. The image also depicts a vast landscape with various peaks and valleys and a waterfall flowing downwards from the upper left corner towards the middle of the painting. There are many varieties of trees painted in various shades of green, brown and yellow and many different animals scattered throughout the landscape.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Made in
Tigua, Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tigua Painting2903/53

Large Tigua painting depicting the countryside and a fiesta in a village. The canvas itself is formed by a piece of skin stretched and nailed over a wooden frame. The sky and the countryside serve as the background of the painting. On the left side of the painting, there is a green and orange-brown cliff set against the horizon. There are two stone-walled buildings with brown thatched roofs nestled in front of the cliff. To the right, two more buildings rest atop a yellow hill. To its right there is a blue snow-capped mountain. Two couples lead their llamas along a path toward the leftmost buildings. There are a number of houses. A grey path runs along the bottom of the hill, upon which a couple walks toward the left leading, on a brown harness, a donkey carrying a package. On the right side of the path, a couple leads two llamas, one yellow-white and one black, through an arch in the brown cliff. In front of the hillside, there is a field with yellow grains being cut by two women and a man with sickles. Yellow-white llamas graze in a field right of the hillside. A woman spins wool in the lower right corner of the field. A grey path curves upward from the right edge of the image, and two women and two men carrying yellow bundles on their backs walk up the path. A woman leads a llama with a bundle tied to its back on the path as well. The village is delineated from the countryside on the left side of the painting by a wall of orange dirt. On the right, a brown wall of dirt serves the same purpose. From the left side of the image, a large yellow-white building is set on a diagonal toward the centre of the town. It has a dark grey stone patio, and a man stands on it with his back turned. Another man stands on the patio holding a blue book in his hands, facing the viewer. Two couples watch the men on the patio with their backs to the viewer. There are three small stone buildings with thatched roofs. In between the buildings, two masks sit on the ground and are yellow with pointy ears and large eyes. In front of the three buildings there is a blue pot with water, a brown cylindrical object and a low square table. On top of the table there are three more masks and a small white dish of water. Scattered around the table are six more masks, two drums, a rug, a pink box with a skull affixed to it, and a woman spinning wool. In front of the yellow field there are two stone buildings. Right of the buildings, there are two people wearing elaborate, colourful box-shaped costumes. They carry silver objects shaped like arrowheads with handles. There is a table in front of one of the stone buildings with three men drinking at it. Along the bottom edge of the painting, there is another table with five men drinking around it. Throughout the crowd, which expands right of the tables, there are figures costumed in masks like those on the left side of the painting. The figures also wear jumpsuits that are split down the middle with a different colour on each half and printed with flowers in various colours. The masked figures carry gold bottles and silver cups in their hands. Two men play large round drums in different parts of the crowd. There are also two men on horses who wear furry pants. A woman carries a silver stick with an elaborate cross at its top. Five men play gold and silver horn instruments around the perimeter of the paddock. Within the paddock, four men wave patterned textiles in various colours in front of a large black bull.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Made in
Tigua, Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tigua Painting2903/78

Small Tigua painting depicting peasant life. The canvas is a piece of skin stretched and nailed over a wooden frame. The outside of the frame is painted black. The landscape is broken up into shapes with straight and curvilinear lines. On the left side, in the foreground, there is a square yellow patch in which a man and woman are cutting grains. In front, there are six bundles of grain and behind there is a dense field. They both hold large sickles in their hands. There is a dark green field inhabited by grey llamas. On the left side of the painting, there are raised bluffs above the field of llamas. They are bright green with large leafy plants, large pink flowers, small pink flowers, yellow flowers and bushy green trees against the horizon. There are also bluffs on the right side of the painting. The two bluffs are separated by a dark dirt road that curves down from the middle to the right side of the painting. There are three people walking up this road; two men who have tall bundles of grain strapped to their backs and a woman in a pink shirt and dark blue skirt. A white dog trails behind the woman. Walking down the hill are a woman and a man. At the bottom of the road, there are two buildings. One has a brown roof and grey walls and the other has a light brown roof and white walls. There is also a bundle of sticks and a large orange pot with a handle. There are two different patches of land on the bluffs on the right side of the painting. One is dark green with small dense tufts of pink and green flowers. Above this patch, there is one with a dark green background with plants that have blue stems and yellow and pink flowers. Also atop the right bluff, there are two buildings and a tree against the horizon. The sky is a mixture of yellow and light blue paint. There are many black birds in silhouette against the sky.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Made in
Tigua, Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Staff2903/24

Wooden staff used by Corpus Christi dancers. The Corpus Christi festival celebrates the Eucharist as the body of Christ. The handle of the staff has a square profile with rounded edges. At the top end of the staff, the handle attaches to a star with 14 points. In the centre of the star, there is a round piece of mirror encased in a thin metal frame. One nail is visible in the metal frame. At the very top of the star, there is a small cross protruding from the back of the star. It is missing one of its horizontal transepts. It is affixed to the back of the cross with a metal nail.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
wood, glass and metal
Made in
Cotopaxi, Ecuador ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/69

A multi-coloured, tightly woven basket bag with four braided straps. The base colour of the bag is the dark yellow-white of the undyed cabuya fibre. Nine zigzagging vertical columns composed of short, multi-coloured, horizontal stripes decorate the bag. The dyed areas on the sides of the bag appear slightly faded. The base of the bag contains a circular stripe of green, light orange, pink, and black. Three of the straps are noticeably faded, while one of the straps appears to be new. The newer strap is composed of undyed cabuya strands, orange cabuya strands, and grey cabuya strands.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cabuya fibre and dye
Made in
Chimborazo, Ecuador and Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/71

An oblong woven basket bag with four braided straps that are tied together at the ends. The bag has been decorated with stylized human figures and animals that resemble dogs. These figures have been woven in black and red stripes. The bag also displays geometric shapes, and a circular black and red stripe has been woven into the bottom of the bag. The straps are composed of undyed cabuya strands and light brown cabuya strands.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cabuya fibre and dye
Made in
Chimborazo, Ecuador and Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/73

A multi-coloured, bowl-shaped woven bag with four braided straps. The bag has been decorated with a pattern of irregular shapes and horizontal stripes. The pattern has been applied to the base yellow-white colour of the undyed cabuya fibre. Two of the straps have been braided with dark orange, orange, and undyed yellow-white cabuya. The other two straps have been braided with green, dark orange, and undyed yellow-white cabuya.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cabuya fibre and dye
Made in
Chimborazo, Ecuador and Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/74

An oblong, tightly woven basket bag with three braided straps. A coloured geometric pattern has been applied to the undyed, dark yellow-white base cabuya fibre. The pattern is brown, dark orange, and black in colour and is comprised of stepped rectangles which form diamond shapes and stripes. The bottom of the bag displays three concentric rings, coloured brown, black, and dark brown. There are different colours in each of the braided straps. One contains pink, grey-green, and dark yellow-white. One contains grey-green, dark yellow-white, brown, and pink. And the final strap is purple, grey, pink, and dark yellow-white.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cabuya fibre and dye
Made in
Chimborazo, Ecuador and Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/63

An oblong, tightly woven basket bag with four braided straps. The straps have been tied together and then braided together at the end to form a loop. The base colour of the bag is the dark yellow-white of the undyed cabuya fibre. The bag has been decorated with three bands of multi-coloured stripes, and the opening edge of the bag has been finished with a pink stripe. The straps of the bag have been braided with orange, dark grey, and yellow-white fibre.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cabuya fibre and dye
Made in
Chimborazo, Ecuador and Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/79

A multi-coloured, rounded, tightly woven basket bag with four braided straps. The base colour is yellow-white, which is the colour of undyed cabuya fibre. The bag has been decorated with eight vertical columns of multi-coloured horizontal stripes and diagonal lines which combine to form stacked diamond shapes, open on one side. Near the bottom of the bag is a horizontal row of arrow shapes in various colours. The straps of the bag are thicker at the base, and they taper to fine points. Two of the straps are braided with purple, orange, and yellow-white. One of the straps is yellow-white, black, and pink-orange. The final strap is pink, orange, yellow, and yellow-white.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cabuya fibre and dye
Made in
Chimborazo, Ecuador and Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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