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Blouse2833/30

Small, heavily embroidered blouse or shirt. The two square sleeve panels are joined at the shoulders, with interwoven hand stitches, to the rectangular body panel with a squared head hole in the centre . Colourful floral designs in red, green, pink, purple, orange, blue and brown yarns completely cover a cream coloured undercloth. Possibly unfinished; sides and sleeves are not sewn together.

Culture
Maya ?
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2813/32

The belt consists of a light blue base with figures and animals woven in black on the upper section and dark blue on the lower section. There is a twisted fringe on both ends. The aforementioned images have been woven across the entire belt with a vertical composition. Each set of images is divided by three lines. The imagery is as follows, from top to bottom: two human figures, two human figures carrying an object (coffin ?) on their heads beside a tree, two roosters, a horse tied to a tree, two birds, a hut with a tree, and llama with a human figure, a geometric star/sun, a geometric pattern, a male figure holding a staff beside a bull, two lions, and a human figure with a dog.

Culture
Canari
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Canar, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2813/22

The outer edges of the belt consist of the light yellow-white base colour with a repeating black, eye-like pattern. This horizontal pattern is bordered with one thin red line along the outside and one thick stripe of red, dark yellow, and light brown-green on the inside. The central horizontal band of the belt consists of a dark orange zigzag pattern with a light brown-green horizontal stripe running through the middle. There is also a floral-like motif in the spaces between and under the dark orange zigzags. There is a fringe on one end that consists of seven braids, with a braided green and red rope attached to the end of the fringe, which does not appear to be part of the original belt. There is one partial braid on the other end of the belt, suggesting that both ends may have been finished with a fringe at one time.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Majipamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2813/23

The belt has a light yellow-white base, and this colour can be seen on the top and bottom edges. The top edge of the belt is red and the bottom edge is orange. A horizontal stripe of pink, dark red-purple, blue, light purple, blue, dark red-purple and pink cotton yarn runs down the middle of the belt, on top of the base layer. There are also small woven depictions of a human, a bird, a lizard, and a geometric pattern set within rectangles upon the base light yellow-white layer. There is a fringe on one end of the belt.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Majipamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat2813/35

A hat made from stiff, felted, undyed white wool. It has a rounded crown and a medium-sized brim. The edge of the brim has been lined with a narrow layer of yellow-white seam tape that has been stitched on in red thread using an interlocking serpentine pattern. This layer of seam tape has also been bordered with lines of straight red stitching, and a thin layer of blue material has been sewn on top of the seam tape. The base of the crown has been wrapped with a wide orange ribbon. This orange ribbon has been folded and sewn to the hat at a point, and it then crosses over the crown of the hat and continues on to form two long streamers. On the streamer side of the hat, a flower made of yellow ribbon has been sewn onto the orange ribbon. The centre of the flower is black.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre ?, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Cacha, Chimborazo, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho2813/20

This poncho consists of two rectangular pieces of tightly woven, heavy black cloth sewn together along the top edge, with a gap for the neck opening. The outside edges and neck opening have been embroidered. The outside edge of the poncho has been finished with a black velvet-like fabric which has been attached to the poncho with a sewn, interlocking spiral pattern. This pattern consists of white-grey interlocking spirals, followed by a line of small purple spirals, followed by a line of small orange spirals. The neck opening has been embroidered with a white-grey, interlocking spiral pattern which is bordered on the outer edge with a line of small purple spirals. Each corner of the neck opening contains one embroidered flower design made from light green thread. In addition, the four corners of the poncho contain embroidered flower designs made from this same light green thread.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Canar, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress2845/1

War bonnet or headdress made of a brown felt cap with a wide beaded band that sits at the forehead, with long eagle feathers attached above the band, completely surrounding and obscuring it. They are attached by skin loops and each is wrapped with red fabric, secured by sinew, on the lower portion of the shaft. Tufts of animal hair and burgundy fibres sit on small squares of leather, and are attached with adhesive to the feathers at the tips. The beadwork on the band has geometric designs in red, blue, green and gold on a white beaded background. Strands of red cotton and smaller feathers drape down from behind the headband. Overall colours are dark brown, white, red, green, blue and dark yellow.

Culture
Plains Cree: Opaskwayak
Material
eagle feather, wool fibre, cotton fibre, glass, hair, skin, sinew, adhesive and dye
Made in
Manitoba, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Embroidered Panel2846/18

Vertically rectangular panel with embroidered scene, sewn into a blue fabric frame. The scene is embroidered onto dark green silk? and shows performers engaged in various activities. At top left, a group in masks and a dragon costume climb a stack of chairs. Nearby musicians and spectators watch and one points. In the lower left are drummers and gong players. The lower right shows a dragon dance. Intermingled are trees and foliage. The blue silk frame has pink designs in the weave. The panel is backed with bright pink cotton. Colours are dark green, blue, pink, white, orange, grey, brown and red.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre, gold metal and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Embroidered Panel2846/15

Two orange embroidered panels, mounted onto vertically rectangular blue panels, stitched together. The embroidered images on the orange panels are virtually identical, but reversed. Each panel has a phoenix in flight at bottom, and a dragon at top. Most of the dragon and parts of the phoenix, and other areas on the panels, are embroidered with metallic fibre. The two creatures are accompanied by a gold and blue cage-like structure, foliage, flowers, and decorative motifs. The orange panels have a thin blue and white boarder slightly inset from the edges. The blue mounting panels have a pattern in the weave of the cloth. The blue panels are attached by wide stitching at top, middle and bottom. They are backed by green cotton sewn onto each side separately.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre, metal and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress2813/14

Undyed coarsely woven cotton fabric with embroidered neck panel, shoulders, bottom, and seam edges. There is a design of an abstracted bird, a symbol, and geometric imagery on the neck panel, the shoulders, and along the bottom of the garment. Most seams of the blouse have been sewn with a criss-cross pattern of red and brown. The edges of the sleeves have a red edge on the front and a brown edge on the back. The edge along the bottom of the blouse has been sewn with a criss-cross pattern of red and black. On the front of the blouse, under the left sleeve, is a wavy line of purple embroidery.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre, acrylic fibre and dye
Made in
Guamote, Chimborazo, Ecuador
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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