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Cotton textile with a plain weave, warp-faced striped fabric fragment; repeating stripe pattern: fine dull green stripe intermixed with broad dark brown, light brown and brown stripes. Yarn count; 36 warps per inch, 20 wefts per inch. Single ply s twist yarn. Torn in large l-shape. Indication of 4 selvages. Piece of cream twisted twine attached. Two large black stains.
Ragged golden-brown band fragment in plain weave with warp face. Warp ends appear to be looped over weft cord. Folded and sewn to band of dark brown cloth with gold/brown geometric pattern. Plain weave with weft floats. Feathers(?) have been caught around weft floats at even intervals. Gold-brown yarn is two-ply, dark brown yarn is single, both are S twist.
The textile is the lower border and fringe of one half of a poncho shirt. The wide tapestry band has an interlocking bird pattern arranged in diagonal rows with double outlining. The tapestry colours, two shades of yellow, two reds, purple, orange, and blue, repeat regularly even in the outlining. A band of three stripes, one embroidered and two of thinner yellow and red stripes, is sewn above and below the tapestry band. Beneath the lower striped band is a long red string fringe. Z-spun, two ply s, all threads.
A narrow four selvedge tapestry with one oblique end. Against a light red background, a feline-like creature with a split eye is repeated in profile seven times. The creature has bared teeth and one extended hand with three fingers. The hind quarters are abbreviated into a spiral. The body is edged with ray elements. Several shades of yellow and red combine variously with accents of white, blue, brown and brown-black outlining each figure. Nested triangles fill the space bordered by the oblique end. One weft selvedge has a self-made fringe, the other has remnants of sewing thread. One warp selvedge has an applied fringe and other oblique end is tightly overcast. Z-spun, two ply s cotton warps and camelid (alpaca ?) wefts.
A large shirt or poncho fragment with tab fringe. Plain weave cotton combined with patterned tapestry areas of yellow, red, blue, purple, green and black camelid (alpaca ?) yarns. The tapestry pattern of small interlocking bird designs in alternating colours with red outlining is repeated against a yellow background. The tapestry areas are arranged in horizontal bands and rows of step-blocks. Two loom widths are sewn together along a weft selvedge. The tab fringe is tapestry woven and continues the bird designs. Z-spun, 2 ply s.
A complete square cloth of white cotton with four corner ornaments, a fringed border and tassels on each corner. Two red brocade corner ornaments have yellow edgings which are wrapped and brocaded. Two yellow corner ornaments have red edgings. Two tassels are three-part, alternating red and white. Two tassels, which may be fragmentary, are single white ones. S-spun singles (cotton); z-spun singles (alpaca); z-spun, two plied s cotton and alpaca yarns.
Male figure (part a), with head (part b) and pointed rod (part c) with circular metal disk around centre: face painted yellow, yellow ears, red lips, four gold teeth exposed. Gold eyeballs with black pupils looking upwards, black eyebrows each forming long arches. Black caste mark, black beauty mark on right above corner of mouth. Top of head is flat; wears gold crown, headdress of green, red, black, gold, and yellow rises up at the back to an open-mouthed creature with gold lolling tongue: has jagged teeth. Green hair shows beneath headdress. Long brown and black batik skirt, open at the back; black long-sleeved jacket, decorated front, tattered green and pink braid attached to each sleeve. Multicoloured shoulder ornaments (epaulettes), woven Mandarin-style collar. Wide blue band around waist; black, white, blue, and gold plastic belt. Smaller pink belt underneath. Gold painted hands.
Three-dimensional female humanoid puppet: head (part c) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part d) with a long shaft 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. The figure's right arm is broken at the hand where the control rod attaches (part b). The figure has a flower motif on each breast underneath a black fabric bib decorated with gold-coloured beads and coloured sequins. The bib has a shiny bright green mandarin-style collar decorated with braid and silver sequins. Forward-bending white face and neck, small straight nose, slit-shaped eyes, red lower lip, red caste mark, beaumark on right above corner of mouth, ears. Top of head is flat, straight black hair. Gold body and arms; crown of gold, green and red. Multicoloured band around waist, attached to body with blue tack on front, red and blue tacks on back. Long batik skirt, in beige, light brown and grey-blue.
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 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. The figure's face is dark red with black and white spots. Mouth open exposing one tooth at front of mouth; long upper lip. Nose, eyes small; black pupils. Head painted dark red; lump at back of head. Dark multi-coloured fabric skull cap on head. Arms long and dangling; hands large, and positioned at right angles to wrists. Close-fitting jacket with a rust-coloured, knit torso, a high collar, and short sleeves of patterned cotton. Beige belt around waist. Plaid skirt in grey and brown with purple and off-white stripes.
The textile is rectangular and striped with a string fringe. The main panel is a single, complete loom width of warp-striped cotton striped in light and medium shades of brown with solid brown camelid bands along each long side. Sewn onto each brown band is a band of red and yellow circles. The fringe at both ends is made of warp loops and secured by two rows of countered weft twining. Z-spun, two plied, s yarns, sewn.