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SashSa182

Sash with six solid red bands interspersed with three purple and two off-white bands, all running lengthwise. Embellished with geometric and bird designs in yellow, purple, green, and white silk brocade at one end. Fringed at both ends.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
San Pedro Sacatepequez, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlanketEi34

Blanket composed of a long piece of heavy off-white cotton fabric, stiffened from thick course cotton weft and warp. A series of bands, two wider brown with thinner blue and pink bands, run parallel to one edge along the entire fabric's length. One single brown stripe runs parallel, but very close to the edge. The ends are finished with a knotted fringe.

Culture
Burmese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlanketEi44

Heavy cotton blanket has alternating black rectangles and squares on horizontal areas of light blue, then white, light brown, then yellow. Entire design is alternating colours and squares then rectangles both horizontally and vertically. Unravelled warp creates fringes of black and white at both ends.

Culture
Burmese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod PuppetIb398 a-c

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft that passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. Pale orange face, positioned downwards; small pointed, curved nose, small white eyes with black pupils, red lips. Moustache, beard, hair, facial detail in black. Large red crown (mahkota) headdress with simple forward diadem (jamang), more elaborate karawista and badong in gold, red, and green. Green Garuda Mungkur with black tail. Single black curl of hair. Gold neck and upper torso; arms with green, white, red ornaments at wrist and bicep. Hands held flat and bent back at wrist. Black chest covering and apron with white trim, sequins and wrapped wire. Apron has black waistband and yellow fringe at bottom. Long batik skirt beige, red and blue.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
fibre, paint, cotton fibre and wood
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod PuppetIb397 a-c

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft that passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. Discoloured white face positioned downwards with straight pointed nose, pink lips and white teeth. Hair, slight moustache, eyes outlined in black. Red crown (mahkota) headdress with tiered diadem (jamang) in gold, red, and green. Gold kurawista surrounds grey field; small grey triangular extension above. Gold sumping, two badong, and green Garuda Mungkur (short tongued) with wide black Tali Garuda. Long black hair falls in three curls. Gold neck and torso; arms have gold and red ornaments at biceps and wrists. Hands held flat and bent back at wrist. Red chest covering and apron with brown wavy trim, sequins and beads. Apron has red waistband and yellow fringe at bottom (both discoloured). Long batik skirt in beige with blue and red.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
cotton fibre, paint, fibre and wood
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rod PuppetIb396 a-c

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft that passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. Pale orange face with white eyes, black pupils cast slightly downwards. Curved pointed nose, red lips. Black hair, moustache, beard and facial details. Large red crown (mahkota) with gold, green, white, and orange components, notably a green Garuda Mungkur with black tail, an extensive badong with two points and a single hair curl (kendit) with gold stripe. Black neck; upper torso gold. No arm ornaments; hands held flat and bent up at wrist. Red chest covering with yellow trim and sequin pattern: red apron with green waistband, brown trim and sequin decoration, yellow fringe at bottom. Long batik skirt in blue, red and beige.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and cotton fibre
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Needle CaseEe62

An ornamental metal disc welded in four places to attach two bars to the back. From the lower bar a small rectangular box, 6.5 cm. by 2.5 cm., is hung by a cloth strip. The box has loops at the bottom and from these, there are hung three strips of red cotton, one of which has been doubled the full length. These are strung with cowrie shells and the cloth is knotted at the ends.

Culture
Ladakhi
Material
shell, cotton fibre and brass metal
Made in
Jammu-Kashmir, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSa203

Sample of double-ikat resist-dyed woven cotton textile. The textile has both warp and weft patterning with a traditional pattern of black, blue, yellow, white and metallic gold stripes and an ikat design, mainly curvilinear, in bands of white.

Culture
Quiche
Material
cotton fibre, dye and metal
Made in
Salcaja, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSa201

Sample of woven cotton cloth with resist-dyed patterns woven into warp (jaspe). Multi-coloured striped pattern alternating with stripes of black and white jaspe weave patterns in typical designs.

Culture
Quiche
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Salcaja, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlSf873

Textile with multi-colour stripes alternating with bands of geometric shapes in black and white. Each group of stripes is separated by bands of brown. The warp ends are finished by folding and machine stitching. One weft selvedge has all the thread floats from one colour area to the next.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Huancayo, Junin, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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