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Cocoa Cloth3151/6

Cocoa cloth. Textile is roughly square, hemmed along the edges, with groups of large tassels at each corner. Stripes are wide blocks of brown, tan and grey, with a panel of embroidery at centre showing repeating floral motifs in tan on a red background. At edges are rows of pin-striping in colours of pink, green, red, blue and yellow. Tassels are made of strands of twisted wool, several attached by thin cords woven with tiny white glass beads incorporated into the construction.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, dye and glass
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cocoa Cloth3151/5

Cocoa cloth. Textile is roughly square, hemmed along the edges, with groups of large tassels at each corner. Stripes are wide blocks of brown, tan and grey, with a panel of embroidery at centre showing repeating triangular and floral motifs in tan on a red background. A strip of embroidery in bright yellow, green, white and pink runs across the centre. At edges are rows of pin-striping in multiple colours. Tassels are strands of twisted wool, several attached by thin, multicoloured cords.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3151/4

Woven wool shawl. Narrow vertical lines of interspersed colours in dark grey, light brown and medium brown cover the shawl, with two areas near each end of wider lines in black, brown, grey and tan. The silhouette of an alpaca is woven in black into the tan. Ends of shawl have sparse fringe of light tan wool.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3151/3

Wool poncho. Garment is rectangular in shape, consisiting of two nearly identical peices of cloth sewn together in a thick stitch at shoulders, leaving an opening for the head and neck at mid-point. Background colour is a light brown, with horizontal stripes in two panels at top and bottom in colours of red, green, blue, pink and others. A single green line runs between the panels.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3151/2

Wool textile. Piece is rectangular in shape, with a thick cord edging sewn along all sides. Stripes fill the textile, with wide bands of light tan interspersed with thin lines in groupings of dark pink, red, orange, grey and green. Narrow lines of pattern in grey and pink sit atop the tan. Cord edging has a repeating diamond-shaped pattern in dark red, orange and grey.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3151/1

Wool textile. Piece is rectangular in shape, consisting of two pieces of weaving virtually identical in colour and pattern that have been sewn together at midpoint. Stripes fill the textile, in a variety of thicknesses and in colours of brown, pink, orange, grey and red. Edges are hemmed with a woven cord holding a repeating diamond-shaped pattern.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3148/2

Long green belt, or sash, woven with multi-coloured patterns. Belt is relatively narrow, with stripes of short linear patterns in blue, green, red and yellow. Long twisted lengths of yarn hang from each end of the belt, most in a single colour, but two are twisted from red and white. A tassel is attached to the end of each one.

Culture
Inuit ?
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow Sash3148/1

Finger woven red belt with multi-coloured pattern. The sash, or belt, is long and woven with lines of short diagonal stripes in blue, green and yellow on a bright red background. The wool is plaited into thick cords at each end, with the threads left long and unbraided.

Culture
Metis ?
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tray3147/5

Basketry divided tray. Constructed of cedar slats wrapped in cedar root. Base is rectangular, with short, straight walls. The interior is divided in half by a partition with a rounded top, that sits higher than the basket edge, with a handle hole at centre. Dark red and black cherry bark imbrication decorates the sides of the basket in sets of short diagonal lines.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
cedar wood, cedar root, cherry bark and dye
Made in
Seabird Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Quipu3177/12

Quipu, or string abacus. Five thin strands of twisted wool fibre are tied to a light yellow cord. The five strands each carry a series of knots, used as a counting or record keeping system. One of the strands is a grey-green colour, another is brown and tan, and the remaining three are light brown.

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