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Textile2787/42

Narrow band of fabric of red, cream, black, yellow, blue and green threads woven into patterns of tiny squares with cream fibres hanging loose at one unfinished end.

Culture
Paracas Chavez ?
Material
cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Textile2787/41

Fragment of beige fabric with rows of embroidered llama-like animals in red, brown, yellow and pink.

Culture
Paracas Chavez ?
Material
cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile2787/40

Squared piece of beige fabric with rows of embroidery llama-like animals in red, brown, yellow and pink

Culture
Paracas Chavez ?
Material
cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Textile2787/39

Two small rectangles of beige fabric stitched together to form a long panel. The upper section has three vertical rows of an identical horned animal embroidered in red, brown, yellow and pink while the somewhat wider lower section has four rows.

Culture
Paracas Chavez ?
Material
cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Textile2787/38

Small fragment of purple and brown hand spun, hand loomed, double woven cloth with a few pink and black stripes in the centre field. One long edge is finished with a cord-like brown border, the other long edge is frayed, one side edge is hemmed back, the other is hemmed near the finished corner but remainder has loose fibres.

Culture
Andes
Material
alpaca wool fibre and natural dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/26

Woman's ceremonial cloth (saput). The cloth consists of two panels of red silk, hand loomed on back-strap loom with discontinuous warp and dyed with a weft ikat resist technique-known as "endek", that are sewn together with the seam down the centre. A songket supplementary weft of silver covered threads divides the central design into four rows of rectangular shapes with tall tree-like cones at either end. Within the rectangles is a red, orange and cream weft ikat.

Culture
Balinese
Material
silk fibre, natural dye and silver metal ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/32 a-b

Patola ceremonial cloth of silk, dyed blue, red and cream with an ikat warp and weft resist technique. The geometric jewel motif (ratan chok bhat), runs down the centre of the cloth and there is a border of stripes on either side, one of which has been machine-sewn on. The long edges are machine-hemmed and the ends have been cut. A smaller piece (b) has been machine-hemmed on all sides.

Culture
Indian
Material
silk fibre, natural dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mbu Walg Kupun II2805/1

Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.

Culture
New Guinea: Kapia Ulgu
Material
plant fibre, paper mulberry bark, wood, seed, cowrie shell, chicken feather, plastic, jute fibre, possum jaw bone, natural dye, boar tusk, clam shell and oyster shell
Made in
Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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