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Coca ClothSf396

Coca cloth made of off-white wool with three wide predominantly red bands with green, yellow and purple and pink stripes and thin bands of geometric pattern. Four narrow red and green stripes alternate with the wider groups. Red, green and pink stripes are placed near the edges, parallel to the other stripes.

Culture
Quechua
Material
alpaca wool fibre, synthetic fibre, sheep wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSf957

Skirt made of red fabric and gathered at the waist with brilliant yellow piping at the hem and a multicoloured striped band for a waistband. There is an opening at the top of one seam with ties extending from the waistband. Two horizontal pleats 18 cm above the hem.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre ? and synthetic fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketEf214

This shallow basket is woven of grass in natural and dyed shades of red and blue. Design is over-woven with coloured fillets of grass in natural, red, and blue. Bottom is star shape radiating outward in four sectors of colour, two red, and two natural. Around this is row of natural colour grass, followed by inverted triangles filling in background. Sides decorated in diagonal bands of red alternating with rows of blue diamond shapes and red triangles separated with natural grass bands. Above this, one row of natural-coloured grasses and a final one of alternating red and natural grasses finish basket.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
synthetic dye and sikki grass
Made in
Mithila, Bihar, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BandSf913

A long narrow band with a succession of tiny motifs composed of circles, spiked diamonds, crosses and reverse curves. Butterflies, birds and plants also appear. The white patterns on a green and red background are inverted on the other fabric face. The band is bordered with a dark purple strip. One end of the band is finished with a braid.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltSf912

A wide red belt with one large and two small bands of patterns. One end is finished in twenty-seven braids while the other end is attached to a black and white striped stiff underbelt. Narrow woven bands with end tassels are attached to each end of the two-part belt. The main design of the one large band of patterns is consisting of figurative patterns of birds and fish as well as hexagons, diamonds, and s-shaped reverse curves.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpindleSf975

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl positioned near one end. A small section of red, two ply s twist yarn is wound on the shaft above the whorl and a ball of yarn with less plying twist is attached to the spindle.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wood and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothSf974

Cloth, roughly rectangular with a central seam, one hemmed edge and three frayed edges. The cloth has a herringbone pattern and has a small piece of black cloth sewn to it at one corner.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltSf911

Belt composed of two parts: a segment of alternating bands of dark and light brown (underbelt), and a segment of woven red, off-white and green fabric with a central band featuring geometric motifs flanked by narrower bands. The warp ends are braided to form a fringe at one end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, alpaca wool fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothSf984

A plain neutral coloured cloth with series of three bright bands of stripes in red, yellow, green and blue and two narrow stripes in between, and stripes on the selvedge. Coloured fibre woven into bottom edge, creating small tassels at one bottom corner and braid at the other.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClothSf973

Cloth, blue-green and rectangular with two selvedges and two cut, unfinished edges. A line of red machine stitching reinforces each cut end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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