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Bag3151/9

Wool bag. Small purse is roughly square with a fringe at bottom, decorative remnants of the fibres the bag was woven from. A long, thin handle is attached at upper corners. Front and back being similar, bag is decorated with a central diamond shape filled with floral motifs, surrounded by ovals, lines and other small shapes in pink, orange, red and purple on a tan background. Fringe is of the same colours. Handle is tan with small squares of red along its length.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3151/8

Wool bag. Small purse is square, with a black lining, and a long, thin, ribbon-like handle. Bag is decorated with vertical stripes in various widths, in colours of dark red, tan, grey, pink, blue and orange, with three strips of a loose herringbone weave in tan. Back and front are nearly identical. Handle has a dark wave motif on a multicoloured, striped background.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3151/7

Wool bag. Purse is rectangular, a single piece of weaving that has been folded over and sewn closed on bottom and one side. Bag opens to the top. Colouring is dark red with thin horizontal stripes in groups consisting of tan, black, blue, yellow, and brown. Single black lines sit between the groups. A small red tassel is attached to bottom corner.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cocoa Cloth3151/6

Cocoa cloth. Textile is roughly square, hemmed along the edges, with groups of large tassels at each corner. Stripes are wide blocks of brown, tan and grey, with a panel of embroidery at centre showing repeating floral motifs in tan on a red background. At edges are rows of pin-striping in colours of pink, green, red, blue and yellow. Tassels are made of strands of twisted wool, several attached by thin cords woven with tiny white glass beads incorporated into the construction.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, dye and glass
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cocoa Cloth3151/5

Cocoa cloth. Textile is roughly square, hemmed along the edges, with groups of large tassels at each corner. Stripes are wide blocks of brown, tan and grey, with a panel of embroidery at centre showing repeating triangular and floral motifs in tan on a red background. A strip of embroidery in bright yellow, green, white and pink runs across the centre. At edges are rows of pin-striping in multiple colours. Tassels are strands of twisted wool, several attached by thin, multicoloured cords.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3151/4

Woven wool shawl. Narrow vertical lines of interspersed colours in dark grey, light brown and medium brown cover the shawl, with two areas near each end of wider lines in black, brown, grey and tan. The silhouette of an alpaca is woven in black into the tan. Ends of shawl have sparse fringe of light tan wool.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3151/3

Wool poncho. Garment is rectangular in shape, consisiting of two nearly identical peices of cloth sewn together in a thick stitch at shoulders, leaving an opening for the head and neck at mid-point. Background colour is a light brown, with horizontal stripes in two panels at top and bottom in colours of red, green, blue, pink and others. A single green line runs between the panels.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3151/2

Wool textile. Piece is rectangular in shape, with a thick cord edging sewn along all sides. Stripes fill the textile, with wide bands of light tan interspersed with thin lines in groupings of dark pink, red, orange, grey and green. Narrow lines of pattern in grey and pink sit atop the tan. Cord edging has a repeating diamond-shaped pattern in dark red, orange and grey.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3151/1

Wool textile. Piece is rectangular in shape, consisting of two pieces of weaving virtually identical in colour and pattern that have been sewn together at midpoint. Stripes fill the textile, in a variety of thicknesses and in colours of brown, pink, orange, grey and red. Edges are hemmed with a woven cord holding a repeating diamond-shaped pattern.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Amulet3150/10

Small alabaster illa. Stone is carved into a rectangle, flat on top and somewhat curved on the underside, with non-parallel long edges. Top surface is engraved with a set of rectangles, large and encompassing on the outside, with concentric sets of two on the interior. The relatively wide engraved lines are coloured dark grey. Underside has a cross shape scratched on one side.

Culture
Peruvian
Material
alabaster stone
Made in
Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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