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Rod PuppetIb358

A three-dimensional male humanoid figure puppet. Has a large head and jointed arms attached to controlling rods. The head is positioned forward with the face split vertically into brown and yellow hemispheres. The bulging eyes with red irises are directed upwards. There is a wide, flat nose, and prominent upper teeth between the red lips with two large canines extending over the bottom lip. No headdress. Flat textured black hair. The corpulent body with large belly and gold-coloured skin has ornaments in two pieces at the wrists. Wearing a brown close-fitting top with a brown and blue batik skirt.

Culture
Sundanese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and cotton fibre
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEd1.126

Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Face is made of white silk. Head is covered with a green silk coat that has sleeves hanging free, a red-purple collar, a white paper ornament on the forehead, a red ribbon at the front, and white cotton cuffs. Under the coat, there is a white shirt, a light blue-green silk skirt, two pairs of loose off-white trousers, white socks, and green shoes with red trim. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light red-pink silk with a loop of the same thread at the top are glued to the paper backing.

Culture
Korean
Material
paint, adhesive, silk fibre, cotton fibre and paper
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEd1.125

Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Face is made of white silk. Head is covered with a green silk coat that has sleeves hanging free, a red-purple collar, a white paper ornament on the forehead, red ribbon at the front, and white cotton cuffs. Under the coat, there is a red, and blue shirt, a light blue-grey silk skirt, two pairs of loose off-white trousers, white socks, and low red shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light red-pink silk with a loop of the same thread at the top are glued to the paper backing.

Culture
Korean
Material
paint, silk fibre, adhesive, cotton fibre and paper
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollEd1.124

Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Face is made of white silk. Head is covered with a green silk coat that has sleeves hanging free, a red-purple collar, a white paper ornament at the forehead, a red ribbon at the front, and white cotton cuffs. Under the coat, there is an orange-red shirt, a blue-green silk skirt, two pairs of loose off-white trousers, white socks, and low red shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light green silk with a loop of the same thread at the top are glued to the paper backing.

Culture
Korean
Material
paper, silk fibre, cotton fibre, rayon fibre ?, paint and paste adhesive
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSf856

Red tapestry square with brown feline ? in profile, with frontal head. A crescent shaped crest sprouts from the side of the head. The creature has ears, protruding yellow tongue and a long tail. The body has spots and back has a zigzag outline. The feet are large and square with zigzag claws. One warp selvedge with heading wefts and two weft selvedges are present. A-spun, 2 plied z (warps) and z-spun, 2 plied s (wefts). Remnants of sewing thread along both weft selvedges.

Culture
Andes
Material
alpaca wool fibre ? and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoinclothSf855 a-b

An irregular fragment in two pieces that combines brown plain weave cotton with predominantly yellow camelid (alpaca?) weft-faced weaves. The largest piece (part a) has a yellow diamond-shaped, double headed serpent design in supplementary weft weaving, with accents in red and dark yellow. There is a narrow band of birds in a 5 colour complementary warp weave; red, black, white and two yellows. Weft-faced stripes of red and yellows flank the bird band. One warp, one weft selvedge present and two cut edges. The smaller piece (part b) is part of the narrow bird band, flanked by stripes of red and yellows.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSf854

Small, striped fabric with 4 selvedges. Yellow, brown, white, blue, red-brown, green and red stripes are repeated 3 times. One colour is completely deteriorated between the red and yellow stripes, exposing the warp threads. The spinning and weaving are very uneven. One third of the fabric, the area of terminal weaving, is very loosely beaten. All selvedges are complete and there are no signs of sewing to another fabric. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho YokeSf832

A fragmentary slit tapestry yoke in 3 shades of yellow, red and accents of white and black. Existing fragment is roughly the shape of a stepped triangle. 5 red and yellow bands outline the stepped hypotenuse and the interior is filled with 18 crested birds, arranged in rows. Colours of birds (predominantly red and yellow) alternate along rows. The bird crest is almost as elaborate as the body but it lacks feet. White tassel with purple wrapping is sewn to tapestry and a loose orange feather adheres to the surface. Heading cord in place along short side. Cut warps extend from stepped tapestry edge. Z-spun singles for weft yarn, z-spun, 2 plied s for warp yarns.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head ClothSf831

A cotton, gauze-weave head cloth in blue, green, orange and shades of yellow. Colour alternation is semi-regular in both warp and weft directions. Composed of two loom widths, each with narrow, yellow camelid borders along the warp selvedges. Sewn together along a weft selvedge. S-twist cotton yarns, z-spun, 2 plied s camelid (alpaca ?) and cotton yarns.

Culture
Andes
Material
alpaca wool fibre ? and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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StrapSf829

The white textile is long, narrow and unfinished with flaring ends. The two ends are dissimilar in colour and pattern. One end has four woven bands of triangles and diamonds in red, yellow and black. The other end has seven narrow bands of yellow, green and red interspaced with seven dark red bands. The bands show zoomorphic designs in black. The ends are woven in combination weft faced plain weave, complementary and supplementary weft weaves using camelid. Except for the ends and the unwoven section, the cotton warps are plain woven with cotton wefts. Z-spun, 2 ply s yarn.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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