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Poncho2811/1

Very brightly coloured poncho, heavily embroidered with acrylic yarn and cotton embroidery thread, mainly purple and pink, with numerous other colours, on off-white cotton backing. Main design is a stretched oval running from the front edge to back edge around neck, embroidered mainly in acrylic yarn in an abstract star-like design. The negative spaces outside the circle are embroidered with smaller floral designs, a person and two birds. Poncho has a red and blue cotton collar added, with various types of lace and metallic gold ribbon sewn onto it. Sides are stitched except for small slits for arms.

Culture
Guatemalan
Material
cotton fibre, acrylic fibre and synthetic fibre
Made in
Chiapas, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl2813/10

A multi-coloured fiesta shawl made with a base yellow-white cotton fibre. The shawl contains two borders of embroidered animals, men, and men on horseback wearing triangular hats with crosses. Below the animals in the border is a broad stripe of multi-coloured, machine-stitched embroidery patterns. Both ends of the shawl have been finished with multi-coloured acrylic pom-poms. The animal imagery was drawn on the cloth with red pen and then these drawings were stitched by hand and with a sewing machine. The imagery on one end, from left-to-right: bird, dog, man with gun, animal, animal with antlers, animal, bird with elaborate feathers, bird, horse, man on horse with hat. The imagery from the other end, from left-to-right: text "Fin", man with hat, animal, bird with elaborate feathers, bird, dog, animal with antlers, dog, horse, man on horse with hat.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre, acrylic fibre and dye
Made in
Salasaca, Tungurahua, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2813/81

A woven rectangular bag with a strap. The design of the bag consists of a multi-coloured checkerboard pattern. Alternating rectangles have images of deer-like animals. The strap has been woven with two strips of alternating rectangles of dark green and light green.

Culture
Quechua
Material
acrylic fibre and dye
Made in
Majipamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Apron2747/1

"Tofua" dance apron . Basketry top panel is of light grass, with a zigzag pattern woven into it, around which is inter-woven an acrylic blue wool border and a twisted green and yellow wool band. The hanging grass strands below the panel have been unraveled in spots and shredded into long thin fibres in others.

Culture
Rotuman
Material
grass, acrylic fibre and synthetic dye
Made in
Rotuma, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Band2738/67

Tungurahua-style Corpus Christi band made of an embroidered yellow silk panel sewn onto a burlap backing and then lined with orange cotton cloth that wraps around to form a framing edge. Embroidered motifs are in red, blue, brown, orange, maroon, pink, black, beige and green wool and include flowers, birds, deer, llamas, men hunting, musicians playing the harp, trumpet and drums, and a couple dancing. Small translucent and silver discs of plastic have been sewn into the middle of the design and a border of wide strips of gold foil paper is attached to the sides, with long yellow stitches on three sides and machine stitching on the fourth.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, acrylic fibre, paper and plastic
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Band2738/57

Hanging band from the shoulder pole of a Cotopaxi-style Corpus Christi costume. Made of two long embroidered orange silk panels sewn together back-to-back, with a turquoise cloth edging on the two long sides, and attached with long stitches to a lining made of several pieces of purple and unbleached cotton cloth. Embroidered motifs differ on each side; red, pink, blue, brown, white, orange and green flowers, a figure, and a bird on the side with yellow slk top band and pink, black, white, orange and blue flowers, three figures and a monkey on the other. At the bottom end on one side is a band of silver paper outlined with pink wool from which hang strands of green wool.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, acrylic fibre, paper and aluminium metal
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Panel2738/52

Rectangular Corpus Christi costume tail panel that hangs down the back. The central panel of light orange silk has flowers,birds, men on horseback, flames, crosses and emblems (one with the letters JHS) embroidered on in red, purple, brown and green, and is framed with consecutive borders of purple silk, silver foil, green and turquoise ribbons and, finally, a long fringe of pink wool. A purple ribbon drapes from the top and a small square mirror hangs at its centre. The entire top textile panel has been crudely sewn onto a paper and straw ? support covered with a piece of loosely woven green cloth.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, acrylic fibre, aluminium metal, glass, tin metal, plastic, grass and paper
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Band2738/66

Tungurahua-style Corpus Christi band made of an embroidered red silk panel sewn onto a burlap backing and then lined with red cotton cloth that wraps around to form a framing edge. Embroidered motifs are in blue, beige, yellow, purple, black, gold, turquoise and green wool and include flowers, birds, deer, horses, and men riding llamas,. Small silver discs of plastic have been sewn into the middle of the design and a border of wide strips of silver paper is attached to the sides.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, acrylic fibre, paper, plastic and aluminium metal
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Apron2738/65

Cotopaxi-style Corpus Christi apron or band made of an embroidered light brown cotton cloth panel with a double frame of red material within strips of silver foil paper, all sewn onto a purple flower stamped cloth backing that wraps around to form a thin framing edge. Embroidered motifs, in red, purple, pink, brown, and green wool, depict birds, deer, monkeys, men on and off horseback blowing trumpets, and a lamb on an altar that surround a heart and cross filled triangular emblem in the centre. Small translucent and silver discs of plastic have been sewn into all of the eyes.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, acrylic fibre, paper and aluminium metal
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Corpus Christi Band2738/68

Tungurahua-style Corpus Christi band made of an embroidered light yellow silk panel sewn onto a burlap backing and then lined with red cotton cloth that wraps around to form a framing edge. Embroidered motifs are in red, blue, brown, maroon, pink, orange, beige and green wool and include flowers, birds, deer, llamas, men hunting, musicians playing the harp, trumpet and drums, and a couple dancing. Small translucent and silver discs of plastic have been sewn into the middle of the design and a border of wide strips of gold paper is attached to three sides with long yellow stitches.

Culture
Ecuadorian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, paper, plastic and acrylic fibre
Made in
Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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