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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.
A wooden staff with six metal bands along the shaft and tipped metal ends. The tip of the staff is pointed. A metal wire extends through a hole in the staff near the top, above the second metal band. This wire secures two metal coins and a metal hook/clasp that has been hinged and shaped to rest flush against the cylindrical shaft. There is a coin on each side of the staff, both read "Republica del Ecuador". There are also some short decorative ribbons located at the same point as the coins and clasp. There is a cotton ribbon striped dark yellow, blue and red and wool ribbons in blue, green, and red.
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.
Choker-style necklace created with four strands of cotton fibre with red beads, metal beads, Ecuadorian coins, Columbian coins, a medal depicting the Virgin Mary, and a few beads in blue, yellow, purple, green and pink. There is a metal cross in the middle of the necklace, and two coloured stones (one red and one green) have been attached to it with metal prongs. The cotton fibre has been braided at the ends of the necklace to form a tie.
Square-shaped shirt made from one piece of rectangular cotton cloth stitched up the sides, with openings left at the top for the arms and a squared neck opening cut in the centre. The upper portion of the shirt has red, brown, blue, purple, orange and green geometric designs embroidered onto horizontal woven bands of purple, orange and green and has been pleated on both sides of the neck opening. The lower portion is a natural cream colour with bands of black and purple across the top and is gathered at the bottom of the pleat darts. Two strips of red ribbon with shiny gold circles edge the sleeves and neck.
This poncho consists of two large rectangles of machine-processed, black felted wool that have been sewn together with black thread along one edge, with a gap left for the neck. There is a multi-coloured, embroidered stripe that runs along the edge of the neck, shoulders, and bottom of the poncho. This embroidered stripe has been created with very even, tight stitching, which suggests that it was created with a sewing machine. The bottom edge displays an interlocking diamond pattern in white that is bordered with lines of plain stitching. This is followed by single, parallel lines of red stitching, green stitching, and yellow stitching. The neck opening and the shoulders are embroidered with a similar pattern that consists of plain yellow/green/red lines, followed by interlocking white diamonds, and completed with plain red/green/yellow lines.
Tightly woven poncho created with two pieces of weaving sewn together along the shoulder and top edges. The design of the poncho consists of broad purple horizontal stripes and broad multi-coloured stripes. The multi-coloured stripes are of various widths. The colour scheme, from one side to the other, is as follows: yellow-white, red, green, yellow-white, purple, yellow, purple, yellow-white, red, green, yellow-white, red, yellow-white, green, red, yellow-white, purple, yellow, purple, yellow-white, green, red, and yellow-white. The neck opening has been woven with red cotton ribbon. The outer edges of the poncho have a short green fringe.
The shawl has been woven with an abstract design in black and yellow-white cotton yarn. There is a broad black band on either end of the shawl, and within these bands are vertical rows of stylized bird figures (twenty-six in each band). Both ends have been finished in a fringe of fine knotting, and there are outlines of images arranged horizontally within this knotting. These horizontal rows of images consist of: four leaf designs, three duck figures, and four leaf designs. One side of the shawl is noticeably faded, and there are traces of blue/indigo dye in some of the yellow-white woven areas.
Orange is the base colour of this belt, and it contains woven geometric patterns and animal figures in blue across the width of it. The image sections are divided by vertical stripes in blue, consisting of two sets of four stripes between each image. A horizontal blue stripe runs along both edges. The reverse of the belt shows a mirror image of the front, except the images are all in orange instead of blue. The imagery is as follows: two diamonds, one diamond, a triangle on top of another triangle, a deer-like animal, a deer-like animal with horns, a sun, a cross on a triangular base, a bird, another bird, two diamonds, two triangles with tops touching, a deer, another deer, a sun, and a geometric symbol. There is a fringe on both ends of the belt.
Large square of light, loosely woven black and white fabric. White thread pattern of dotted lines in one direction and lines of oblongs in the other creates an overall check-like design. Two edges are finished with a band of tighter white weaving and short fringe, the other two are cut edges.