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DollEd1.131

Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure, which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Wearing a white headdress, a short blouse of white cotton fastened on the upper right with ribbons of the same, a white cotton ankle-length skirt fastened under the arms with a ribbon of the same, under which, there are white trousers, and straw sandals.

Culture
Korean
Material
paper, silk fibre ?, cotton fibre, paint and paste adhesive
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEd1.130

Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Figure's left hand is holding a folded green, and red paper umbrella. Black hair is in a low bun. Wearing a short orange silk blouse having a tying on the right with ribbons of the same colour, an ankle-length grey skirt fastened under the arms with a white cotton ribbon, white socks, and low red shoes.

Culture
Korean
Material
paint, adhesive, silk fibre, cotton fibre and paper
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEd1.129

Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Figure's left hand is holding a folded a light blue-green paper umbrella. Black hair is in a low bun. Wearing a short light green patterned silk blouse having a tying on the right with ribbons of the same colour, an ankle-length torquoise blue skirt fastened under the arms with a white cotton ribbon, white socks, and low blue-green shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light red-pink silk thread with a loop of the same at the top are glued to the paper backing.

Culture
Korean
Material
paint, silk fibre, adhesive, cotton fibre and paper
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BorderSf863

Cut piece of tapestry border with added fringe. Stripes of yellow, red and black flank a central panel with repeated zoomorphic creatures having human, feline and avian characteristics. The zoomorphic figures are repeated against chevron shapes of reds, yellows and browns. The figures are outlined in black. Parts of two loom widths are sewn together and a separately woven yellow fringe is sewn to one long side.

Culture
Andes
Material
alpaca wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandSf862

Red tapestry headband with five frontal male figures woven with camelid (alpaca ?) wefts on cotton warps. Yellow, green, white, black, brown and two shades of blue are used to define the angular figures who wear headdresses and hold staffs. The headband has cut wefts at the selvedges which are reinforced with stitched seams to retard fraying. Worn areas are mended with ancient thread. Z-spun, two ply s (alpaca) yarns; z-spun, two ply s, re-ply z (cotton).

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre and alpaca wool fibre ?
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BorderSf861

A narrow strip of tapestry with stepped ends. Angular, interlocking bird motifs in green or blue with yellow beaks and eyes and red outlines. Interior of bird bodies are filled with small red motifs. The fabric is intact, including two weft selvedges and the original bound finish on the warp selvedges. Structure is under-float tapestry with vertical slits and some eccentric wefts.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSf839

A small square of light brown woven cotton half fitted with a brocaded step triangle. Blue diamond shapes branching off oblique lines fill the step triangle in a regular way. The exact negative image fills the background space. One warp selvedge with green heading wefts and one weft selvedge are present. There are two cut edges. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre and alpaca wool fibre ?
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSf838

Rectangular fragment of a slit tapestry band with four zigzag design registers. Primarily yellow with several shades of red, black and green as accents. Two registers have designs of interlocking hooks and one register has designs of profile birds. The fourth register has an irregular shaped design with rudimentary facial features. One warp selvedge and two weft selvedges are present.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSf837

Piece of a narrow, dark brown openwork textile with profile standing birds arranged along serrated diagonal lines. The ground cloth is 1:1 gauze in vertical alignment. The birds are worked with discontinuous supplementary brown wefts with accents in gold, grey and light green. One warp selvedge and two weft selvedges are present; the other end is cut. The weave is consistently distorted along the sides about 1cm. in from the selvedges. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head ClothSf836

Rectangular gauze-weave head cloth of blue, orange, yellow and white threads in a plaid-like arrangement. Composed of two separate loom widths sewn together along the weft selvedges. A yellow camelid heading area is on both ends of one width and red ones are on the other. The cloth is intact. S-twist yarns (cotton), z-spun, 2 plied s (cotton and camelid) yarns.

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