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Coca Bag3486/51

Small coca leaf bag (chuspa) with tubular woven edgings (ribetes) on seams and bag mouth, a woven strap handle and a replied fringe. Geometric patterns cover both faces of the bag.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, camelid wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Sling3486/43

A complete dance sling (wichi wichi) with a finger-woven cradle and handles made of solid braids. Red and white yarns are carried in the core of the black braid until needed for the figures, which include lizards and diamonds. Diamonds in shades of pink, orange, blue, red, brown, and green decorate the cradle at the centre of the braided sling against a deep brown and black background. Two pompoms are attached to the band on either side of the cradle. The remainder of the pompoms are connected to the ends of the sling, arranged in a mirrored colour-pattern with dark blue, red, black, chartreuse, forest green, magenta, burgundy, mustard yellow, greenish-blue. The sling is finished in large red tassels on each end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
camelid wool fibre, synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Huancavelica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Sling3486/38

A small-size dance sling (wichi wichi) with a finger-woven cradle and solid braids for handles. The bigger braid, decorated with geometric diamond patterns in black and hot pink against an orange background, with a small finger-loop above the tassel ending made of three smaller solid braids. The cradle at the centre of the sling has a black base with a triangle motif in orange, beige, hot-pink, and dark brown. A chevron pattern is worked in orange, off-white black, and dark brown along the smaller braid.

Culture
Quechua
Material
camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Purse3486/31

A deep brown knitted natural fibre coin purse (monedera) with colourful bobbles. The small rectangular bag has a narrow section near the opening and a triangular flap at the top with a thin tie connected to the point. The bobbles decorate the bag in horizontal colour-blocked stripes of magenta, off-white, blue-grey, golden yellow, magenta, dark green, off-white, bright red, dark green, yellow-green, and a bright red scalloped border around the opening.

Culture
Quechua
Material
camelid wool fibre
Made in
Accha Alta, Cuzco, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sling3263/61

Complete sling. Cradle is red and has a short split in the centre. Border of cradle is a wide band with alternating dark yellow and red triangles. Border edged with dark green thread along the top edge, towards the right side. Handles are solid grey braids. Sections on both braids, closest to the cradle, have red diamonds outlined in dark yellow. Right braid ends with red tassel. Left braid ends with white wool worked into the grey braid, and a white tassel.

Culture
Andes
Material
camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sling3263/62

Naturally coloured complete sling. Cradle has a long split in the centre. Left and right tapering sections covered with brown thread. Middle of cradle also covered with brown thread, on either side of the split. Both handles are braided. Left handle's braid is thick near the cradle before narrowing. Handle ends with a tassel of loose fibres. Right handle has black thread braided close to the cradle, before returning to naturally coloured. Handle ends with a plied cord.

Culture
Andes
Material
bast fibre ?, camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Sling3263/54

Fragment of a sling. Cradle is light brown and has a central split. Edges of cradle are red-brown. Stitches for border clearly visible and move inward, towards the split. Handles are light and red-brown braids. Each have two rows of red-brown diamonds. Space between the rows forms a light brown zigzag along the top and bottom sides of the handles. Right handle extends into a tight red-brown braid. End of left handle is missing.

Culture
Andes
Material
camelid wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Sling3263/56

Fragment of a sling. Cradle is light brown and has an alternating red-brown and light brown diamond pattern. Diamond pattern outlined in dark brown. Through diamond design is a central split. Tapering sides of cradle have dark brown vertical stripes. Cradle ends with thick dark brown bands. Handles are thin solid braids with two rows of diamonds along the sides. Space between the rows forms a zigzag pattern along the top and bottom sides of the handles.

Culture
Andes
Material
camelid wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Garment3263/36 a-d

Four irregularly shaped fragments from a garment. Dark red background with hexagon designs across all fragments. Hexagons alternate between brown-grey with golden brown interiors and golden brown with dark red interiors. All have snake-like faces inside of them. Golden brown hexagons have brown-grey snakes inside them, brown-grey hexagons have golden brown snakes. In the negative space, between the hexagons, are golden brown bird figures. Birds have brown-grey eyes outlined in red. Largest fragment (part a) has two complete hexagons and outlines of three hexagons along the right side. Second largest fragment (part b) has one complete hexagon and the outlines of two hexagons along the top and bottom edges. Third fragment (part c) contains half of a hexagon and part of the dark red background. Smallest fragment (part d) is a portion of the dark red background with golden brown bird figures. Outlines of three hexagons along the top and bottom edges.

Culture
Chancay
Material
cotton fibre, camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Cloth3263/43 a-c

Three fragments from a four-part cloth. Two fragments are from the same section of the cloth (parts a and b). The largest fragment (part a) is irregular in shape and the second largest fragment (part b) is triangular in shape. Both are white with dark yellow zigzag designs across their surfaces. Dark blue geometric patterns spread throughout the dark yellow designs. Part a has an "H"-like shape in the centre, with dark blue and olive green geometric designs inside it. A thin rectangle, towards the bottom edge and close to the left side, of part b has similar olive green and dark blue designs inside it. The smallest fragment (part c) is rectangular in shape and light brown. It has geometric and curvilinear motifs, done in maroon and outlined in dark green, across its entire surface. Wavy line border, along top edge of part c, done in maroon.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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