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Shawl3097/8

Colourful, patterned, woven wool shawl. The outside vertical thirds are bright patterned panels, the centre third is black with a seam down the centre where the two halves were stitched together. The colourful panels have similar patterns in different colours. The patterns are primarily pink, orange, and red, made up of vertical stripes of varying widths, some of which are patterned with vertical swirls, horizontal zigzags, wave motifs, and checkers. The widest stripe on each panel has a checkered background and a pattern of diamonds with swirls inside.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
dye and alpaca wool fibre
Made in
Macha, Potosi, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3097/6

Dark brown, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. The stitch that connects the panels is a zigzag made up of long sections of red, turquoise, and purple yarn. Weave texture is tight with two horizontal red stripes across the top and bottom of each of the front and back rectangular panels. The red stripes are about 6 cm wide and have a dark blue line through the centre. The outer edge is a separately woven red strip with a red yarn fringe, stitched on with red yarn.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Pacajes, La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3097/1

Striped, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. Weave texture is tight and un-patterned, with decoration consisting of a series of horizontal lines of varying widths in dark red, dark blue, black, orange, light beige, dark brown, yellow-brown, and light brown. The outer edge is a separately woven strip with red, orange, and light brown stripes, stitched on with light beige and red string. The edge has a short, uneven fringe made of red, orange, brown, and light beige fibres. Corners are rounded by folding back.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3486/28

Small knitted cap (chullu) made of handspun sheep’s wool(?). A thin row in dark blue forms the very edge of the border, followed by two rows of checkboard patterning against a beige background in red and dark blue respectively. The main design of the cap has colourful horizontal bands with beige geometric and bird motifs separated by thin yellow rows. The background of the bands are split into three sections starting with a red or dark orange stripe on the bottom half, a hot pink stripe in the middle of the band, and the top section which alternates between dark blue and olive green. The background of the band at the very top of the cap is solid red and ends in a small tail.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sleeve3486/25 a-b

A pair of protective sleeves (mangas, maquitas) knitted in sheep’s wool and dyed with aniline dyes. The geometric design features a black and red border at the top, followed by a twice repeating pattern of horizontal multicoloured bands, a row of wave motifs, and a black and white band with bird and fox designs, separated by an additional row of waves across the horizontal centre. The multicoloured bands have rows of purple with orange, red with green, dark red and yellow, greenish-brown with magenta, and royal blue with red. The waves are worked in in orange against purple, greenish-brown against dark red, and magenta against green. The sleeves taper to an orange, purple, black, and dark red border at the wrist end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
sheep wool fibre and aniline dye
Made in
Huancayo, Junin, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3486/155

Woman’s shoulder shawl (lliklla) composed of two fabric widths that are cut from a single, 4-selvedge cloth. It has maroon fields flanked by a rainbow progression of stripes along the sides and the central seam. The central seam is stitched with an arrowhead pattern in figure-8 stitch in a rainbow series of colours. The orange ribete that edges the lliklla has a diamond pattern.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Candelaria, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3486/66

A looped bag (shicra, Spanish; sikra, Quechua) with a multicolour design of stepped diagonals. The bag has long narrow proportions and a shoulder strap.

Culture
Quechua
Material
plant fibre and dye
Made in
Huarochiri, Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Money Bag3486/65

Longish, narrow moneybag (monedera, Spanish; pachaq chaki, Quechua) pouch that is unfinished (lacks side seams and fringes).

Culture
Quechua
Material
camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Cuzco, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coca Bag3486/64

Coca leaf bag (chuspa) with woven strap, tubular woven edgings (ribetes) on seams and edges, and a tasseled fringe on the bottom of the bag. The front face has a diamond in the centre containing four potato flowers (papa tika) surrounded by a jagged diamond and geometric patterns. The back face has a repeating pattern of jagged diamonds. The motifs on both faces are in navy blue on an orange background, with a contrasting vertical band at the centre where the motif is design is worked in pink, green, and red on an off-white and yellow background. Six tiered tassels in magenta, olive green, blue, and off-white are attached to the bottom of the bag. The tubular edging has a diamond pattern in yellow and forest green on one side, and in white and magenta on the other side. A pattern of alternating segments of pink and blue within an light brown border is repeated across the strap.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Pitumarca, Cuzco, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3486/121

Belt (cinta) finished in braids on both ends fastened together by a red and cobalt blue plied tie with a key attached. The design features a ‘pata’ (flat place; pata-pata means stairs) motif with three bands of paired squares arranged like a checkerboard in alternating black and yellow, flanked by alternating green and red squares. A cobalt blue border appears along the top and bottom edges. The silver-coloured key on the right end reads "GLOBE" on one side of the face and "SHANGHAI, CHINA" on the other side, and the silver-coloured key attached to a silver split-ring on the left end reads "TIGER' on one side of the face and 'CRUISE, TIGER" on the other.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Otuzco, La Libertad, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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