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Book Cover3332/9

Case composed of a square piece of fabric, with three corners folded in on itself, and then sewn together with silver thread creating an envelope-shaped case. Embroidered all over in concentric squares with swirled designs in between in light green, red, black and burgundy, and a small circular mirror at centre.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
metal, glass, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/6

Long narrow textile with three roundels with mirror at centre evenly spaced across fabric. Backed with colourful calico fabric. Silver fibre decorations.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
glass, silver metal, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/3

Thin rectangular silk textile with silk embroidery and a reddish-brown cotton backing. Edged with short fringe in sections of yellow, red, orange, green, and light green. The edge is also decorated by metal(?) thread.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
cotton fibre, metal, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Table Runner3332/2

Small rectangular woven table runner with long fringe on one short edge. The textile is striped light purple and light blue down the length, embroidered in bright geometric designs. There are three bands of light blue with light purple running down the length on either side and the centre, with neon pink vine-like designs and small rectangles in dark green, navy blue and burgundy. In between the bands are designs of triangles, diamonds and lines in light green, orange, yellow and dark blue.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/1

Large rectangular woven textile with fringe along the short edges. Composed of three long pieces sewn together. The weave is beige with embroidered geometric designs of stars, steps, triangles and lines in light green, dark green, red, pink, dark blue and yellow-gold. Pockets for hanging sewn to back along the long edge of both the top and bottom.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Nepal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Leggings3332/8 a-b

Leggings made of a heavy fabric, covered entirely in deep red embroidery. One end is edged with a thick border of brown. Each legging is heavily embroidered with a variety of techniques - red and dark green plaiting, red with geometric design cross-stitch, and intricate embroidery organic designs at top divided by two rows of metallic threads.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
metal, cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dip Net3330/1

Dip net composed of a long pole handle, hoop and net. Net composed of woven cotton string. Hoop composed of two pieces of bent wood, tied together at the top and attached to the pole by two wooden pegs, black coated wire and cord. Net suspended from hoop by six metal rings (three on each side), fibre and wire bindings at top. A small piece of dark blue fabric and light green fabric are tied in the net, as well as some pieces of a rough unwound plant fibre rope. A long cord is attached to a metal ring on both sides of the hoop. A piece of off-white string is tied to the pole near the end.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo ?
Material
metal, rubber ?, wood, iron metal ?, plant fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headband3314/6

Round, rectangular-shaped headband with strap that hangs from back. Made of beads and band has cotton lining. Strand and band have dark brown-coloured seed fringe on bottom edges. Seeds hang from alternating black and white strands, with a single red bead in each strand. Strap and band have similar geometric patterns composed of yellow, outlined in black, on a green background. Strap has a white border outlined in black. Band has a three tiered border. Border made of a thick silver-white-coloured line, thin red line outlined in black, and another thick silver-white line. Band is outlined in black.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
plastic, fibre, cotton fibre and seed
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headband3314/5

Round, rectangular-shaped headband with strap that hangs from back. Made of beads and band has cotton lining. Strand and band have dark brown-coloured seed fringe on bottom edges. Seeds hang from alternating silver-white and black-coloured strands. Band has geometric pattern of black on a silver-white background with red triangular-shapes and green dots throughout. Strap has geometric pattern of white on a black background with four red diamonds along middle of design. Band and strap have white borders with black outlines.

Culture
Shipibo
Material
plastic, fibre, cotton fibre and seed
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tunic3314/1

White, poncho-style tunic made of two rectangular pieces folded at the top and sewn down the centre. Small area left open for the arms; slit opening for the neck. Four bands run down front and back of tunic- along each edge, two down the middle. Edges are black cross-hatched lines trimmed with dark purple, white, black, yellow, red and light blue on each side. Bands down the middle are indigo cross-hatched lines trimmed with neon pink, black, dark teal, dark brown and dark purple on each side. Black geometric patterns embroidered on the white background with orange, dark green, light green, dark blue, red, yellow, magenta, yellow, neon pink, dark purple, teal, and light blue shapes throughout.

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