Gift of Adelaide Goan

Cloth fragment with blue camelid dyed threads in borders. Plain weave technique.

Fringe made of brown and yellow-brown camelid wool, forming a braid and slightly knotted at one side. Incomplete.

Tuft of loose cords made of plant fibre and bindings of camelid wool threads. Cords have knots at the ends and threads are forming circular weave patterns and are intertwined with the cords. Yellow-brown, red-brown, green, grey-brown, blue, purple-brown and orange-red dyed wool. Incomplete.

Embroidered cloth with design of figures holding staffs to front and wearing a plumed headdress, two triangular projections. Red, brown, purple, yellow-cream and white alpaca wool on dark blue cotton ground. Made up of fragments of a larger piece.

Fragment of an interlocking tapestry tunic. Approximately half of front-left side of a tunic with part of central selvage. Six bands of winged figures alternating with squares of four triangles on seven vertical stripes. Alpaca wool threads (cream, yellow-brown, red-brown, blue, brown, and black) on cotton warps.

Needle-knit frog figure, made of cotton and wool. Red, pink and blue threads in body, yellow-brown head and eyes, white belly. Well preserved, complete.

Cloth. Upper portion has stepped blocks of slit tapestry and plain weave. Repeated geometricised and diagonal reverse bird motif on tapestry. The same motif appears in diagonal bands in border and simplified version is used on yellow tab fringe. Systematic shifts in colour combinations. Multicoloured alpaca wefts on cotton warps in yellow, blue, red-brown, brown and cream. Restored.

Cross-knit, looping, border element for garment. Double faced polychrome figure with fan held in front of face on one side and baton held in other hand. Red-brown, brown, orange, cream, yellow and black coloured thick threads.

Cross-knit, looping, border element for garment. Double faced female figure with baton held in one hand and fan held in other. Hair missing. Light red, yellow, blue, brown, cream, red-brown and green. Incomplete.