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Hunting Cloth3377/19

Hunting cloth decorated with hand painted and stamped designs. Composed of two rectangular pieces of woven fabric stitched together down the long edge. Design features four partridges across the top, and a large snow leopard with a snake wrapped around its body. Ten small clover-like designs are stamped across the top, left and bottom edges with more stamped within the leopard along with stamped circles and dots. Light yellow borders the edge of the textile.

Culture
Afghan
Material
paint and cotton fibre
Made in
Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hunting Cloth3377/18

Hunting cloth decorated with hand painted and stamped designs. Composed of two rectangular pieces of woven fabric stitched together down the long edge. Design features a partridge on the left, and a large seated lion with a snake wrapped around its body. The background is stamped with clover-like designs and small dots are stamped all over the lion's body. Edges are unfinished.

Culture
Afghan
Material
cotton fibre and paint
Made in
Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hunting Cloth3377/17

Hunting cloth decorated with hand painted and stamped designs. Central figure is a large camel in trappings - cover, neck decoration and bridle with hanging bell - with two partridges above its back, and one below its head. The background is stamped with clover-like designs. Edges are unfinished. A bright orange borders the edge of the textile.

Culture
Afghan
Material
cotton fibre and paint
Made in
Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Camel Cover3377/16 a-b

Camel cover. Large textile meant to drape over an animal's body. The frame is somewhat I-shaped with a solid rectangular body and two cross-sections of fabric that would drape near the animal’s limbs. Attached at one end is a head cover with triangular eye flaps and strips of fabric that would drape over the muzzle. On both sides, between the hanging strips and attached to the triangles along the main body, are four rows by eight columns of small fabric squares attached on corners to either the next square or main fabric. This is repeated with smaller squares of fabric hanging from the head cover. The squares have solid silks in olive green or deep purple, and Ikat pattern. Three attached squares (part b) have detached from the cover. The shoulder fabric and head cover have fringe or fabric tassels. The fabric face is deep pink-purples and greens, and is backed with reds and black.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cape3377/15

Natural coloured cotton cape. The front opening, hem and cuffs are decorated with black machine made geometric designs and feather-like plant motifs. They are also edged in a deep purple-red plaiting. Two black vertical lines are stitched on either side of a seam, with colourful repeating diamond stitching over a portion of the seam near the top in yellow, bright pink, dark purple, light grey-green and burgundy silk thread. Small deep purple-red pompoms line the neckline, and there is one at each cuff seam and side slit. Small multicoloured tassels with small white beads hang from the front opening, three on each side. The neck, cuffs, front opening and bottom edge are lined with a burgundy fabric. On the back, below the neck, is an embroidered rectangular area, coloured dark reddish-pink and blue.

Culture
Tajik
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and glass ?
Made in
Konduz, Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress3343/8 a-c

Two piece dress- shirt (part a) and long skirt (part b)- with long belt or sash (part c). Black zigzag design across all parts. Inside zigzags are blue, pink and light brown V shapes in rows, outlined in black. Shirt has three quarter length bell sleeves. Two pleats down front and back, giving top a flared waist. Zipper running down entire back. Hook clasp above zipper. Interior of top, except sleeves, lined with white cotton. Neckline and cuff interiors lined with black cotton. Skirt has drawstring waist, ties at centre back. Two pleats running down left and right sides of skirt. Black cotton lining along interior of waistline. Back of sash or belt lined with black cotton. All pieces of dress are hemmed.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre and metal
Made in
Kumasi, Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress3343/7 a-b

Two piece dress- shirt (part a) and long skirt (part b). All parts have same design. Shirt and skirt are off-white with wavy light brown lines. Overtop are grid squares, outlined in dark brown, olive green and orange patterned lines. Inside the squares are olive green and orange geometric shapes, outlined in dotted dark brown lines. Shirt has high neckline, with Peter Pan collar and short puff sleeves. Closed with five, cloth covered plastic buttons on front. Shirt has tapered waist and white cotton interior lining- except in the sleeves. Skirt has drawstring waist, ties at centre back. Long slit ends halfway up back of skirt. Interior unlined. All parts of dress are hemmed.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre and plastic
Made in
Kumasi, Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3343/5

Rectangular tie-dye cloth with dark brown, yellow and orange designs. Repeating V shapes, pointing towards the left side, across entire length of textile. V’s span from top to bottom edges. Pattern outlined in gold and alternate between dark brown and orange V's. Dark brown crumple designs throughout the V pattern. Left and right sides are unhemmed.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress3343/9

Kaftan style dress with tie-dye circle designs. Dark green circle overtop gold background in the centre of the dress, on both the front and back, and a dark green circle around the entire neckline. Other streaks of dark green and lighter gold throughout. Yellow embroidery around neckline, sleeves and along bottom edge. Embroidery along sleeves and bottom edge in shape of wavy line. Small embroidered circles span the entire neckline, with loops on top of them. On the front of the dress, extending down from the collar, are eight large embroidered circles outlined with loops and curls. The large circles form an inverted triangle. The interior of the dress has white cotton around the collar, with the same embroidery on it as the exterior. Attached to the lining are two cotton circles- one white, one dark green. The circles also have embroidery on them. All edges of dress are hemmed.

Culture
West African
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3343/6

Rectangular cotton cloth with light blue, dark green, orange and olive green designs printed on it. Dark brown bands with vertical light blue stripes border the top and bottom edges. Background of main portion of cloth is maroon with light blue vines spread throughout. Across the entire length of the textile are columns of alternating dark orange and dark green circles with olive coloured leaf-like shapes in between them. All of the circles have two semi-circles and two pointed ovals inside of them, done in white. Each circle and leaf-shape is outlined in light blue. The outlines are a mix of lines and dots. Between the circles, light blue suns are printed. Pink string attached to top edge, close to right side. Manufacturer’s mark printed in five places along bottom edge. Left and right sides are unhemmed.

Culture
West African
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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