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Carrying Cloth3097/10

Rectangular brown cloth with wide patterned bands along the vertical edges. The brown ground has a seam down the centre where the two halves were stitched together with dark brown string. The edging of the cloth is rounded with a pink and white diamond pattern, stitched on with dark brown thread. The patterned bands along the edges are made up of dark red stripes separating three bands containing figures of birds. The bands on the left are black and purple, those on the right are red and pink.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Potolo, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blanket3656/11

Off-white wool blanket, or robe, with fringe along bottom edge; two long ties attached to top. Central design of an olive green diamond, with stepped edges and a pink hourglass in the centre; bordered with connected triangles. Lines of connected triangles extend from sides of blanket, towards centre; upper lines end before diamond, lower lines meet to form "V" shape close to bottom edge. Border of repeating hourglass-shapes along top, connected with a horizontal line; bottom edge of blanket trimmed with a checkered pink and solid brown line. Additional triangles underneath upper border; all triangles done in dark brown.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Octopus Bag3656/31

Small bag, rectangular at top with eight arms hanging from bottom (commonly called an octopus style bag). Both sides are beaded with floral motifs using tiny beads on a dark brown-red cotton. Each arm has a short red and brown tassels with blue geometric beads attached. Interior of bag lined with brown cotton. There is a red and brown plaited strap attached near the opening.

Culture
Tlingit ?
Material
wool fibre, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3097/15

Patterned woven wool shawl with vertical coloured stripes and wider bands on a black ground. The shawl is made up of two panels sewn together at the vertical centre with dark brown thread. The centre of the shawl along the seam is a wide band of black ground, with solid stripes across the outer sections. The stripes are pink, purple, yellow, brown, and white, with orange stripes only on the left side of the shawl. The wide bands are patterned with wide zigzags or chevrons with concentric circle patterns inside. The right edge is patterned with checkers and the left edge with triangles. The edging is tubular and pink, patterned with yellow and blue lines.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, dye and aniline dye
Made in
Bolivar, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headband3097/19

Brightly coloured patterned headband with beaded edges and long twisted ties at each end. The surface of the headband is off-white with multicoloured patterns, with two horizontal strips of purple, blue, off-white, and green along the top and bottom edges. These strips are patterned with a complex zigzag shape with diamonds in between the corners. The main pattern of the surface is in a wide horizontal band of red, purple, pink, and green stripes in the centre with animal, bird, triangle, and diamond motifs in off-white. The right end of the headband is made up of rows of multicoloured tubular twists of fibre, with alternating colours across the rows and three columns. The edges of the headband are made up of small white beaded loops, and clear beaded loops on the right edge and along the bottom of the tubular loop panel. The twisted ties are thin flat woven strips, with a white diamond pattern filled with green along the centre. The ground of the tie on the right is red, the left is pink. On the end of each tie there are three small loops of beading at the base of two long tubular beads with three more small loops of beading and a worn Republica de Bolivia coin at each end of the long beads. The beaded loops on the left side are red, pink, and yellow at the base and blue at the ends of clear tubular beads, with one large coin and one much smaller coin. The beaded loops on the right side are clear at the base and red and clear at the ends of blue tubular beads, with two similar sized coins.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre, dye, glass and metal
Made in
Bolivia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Vest3097/16

Long woven vest with a colourful patterned centre panel and black sides. The vest has a deep cut rounded neckline, no fastenings on the front edges, and 28 cm slits up the sides at the bottom edge. The central panel is split in two in the front to form the vest opening, and sewn together in the back with sections of string in alternating bright colours. The front left side of the vest has a wide red stripe near the centre, with thinner patterned stripes along the left side of the panel. The front right side has a wide purple stripe near the centre, and thinner patterned stripes along the right side. The colourful patterned panel on the back of the vest is made up of red, yellow, and pink stripes with bands patterned with swirls, waves, and zigzags. The bottom edge and opening edges are finished with bright pink tubular edging.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivar, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coca Bag3097/33

Multicoloured woven coca bag with a long thin woven strap and an open top, with a small flap on the front. Made of two woven panels sewn together to form the front and back of the bag. The strap is woven in yellow, orange, and red with an off-white pattern of lines, sewn into the inside seams of the bag. The front panel has a light tan ground with a column of red, pink, orange, and green stripes in the centre creating a pattern of repeating horse figures with a line connecting to a small rectangle above their backs. The horse figures are bordered by peach coloured vertical stripes. There is a small flap with the same pattern as the central column connected at the top of the flap, and open on the inside of the bag creating a small pocket. The bottom edge of the flap is made up of loops of wrapped threads, in shades of red, pink, orange, and yellow. Each bottom corner of the flap has a long tubular wrapped string with a small elongated ball made of the same wrapped threads at the end. Outside the striped column are two wider columns patterned in dark red with a wide zigzag made up of two thin dark red lines with thin dashes across. There is a conical plant-like motif with mirrored spirals connected to a central line with blocks at each end within each triangle created by the zigzag. The outside of these wide columns is a stripe of alternating blocks, pink and peach coloured on the left and pink and green on the right. The back panel has a dark red ground with a matching green, orange, pink, and red striped column in the centre, with off-white patterns. There is a row along the top of the panel with a horizontal line with circles spaced along it, a narrow row of vertical squiggles, and the rest of the panel is patterned with thin horizontal off-white lines. Both panels are bordered in yellow and connected at the right and left edge with an alternating green and pink edge. The bottom edge of the bag is made up of loops of wrapped threads in shades of green, white, tan, yellow, orange, red, and pink with a wrapped thread ball at each corner and one in the centre. Each ball has two tubular wrapped strings with a ball at each end.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoulder Bag3587/36 a-d

Shoulder bag (part a) with accessories (parts b-d). The dark brown rectangular bag is composed of three woven panels stitched together to form a pouch. The panels have raised meander designs in grey and maroon, and supplementary embroidery in green, yellow, red, blue and pink. The front has long red fringe attached, about 1/4 from the opening. The fringe is composed of plaited strands of red with some mustard yellow, olive green, dark green and navy blue included, as well as strings of white beads and silver-coloured beads. Small panels of embroidered geometric designs are attached above the fringe, and are separated by six vertical strings of white beads that extend into the long red fringe. Below each side panel, there is a section of brown twisted fringe along the bottom edge of the bag. The long dark brown strap is folded down the middle. The accessory (part b) consists of a length of knit(?) yarn in various shades of pinks, greens and some yellow - the ends of which terminate in red tassels of the same plaited string used on the bag's fringe. The accessories (parts c-d) are matching red fabric strings with tassels at both ends in white, yellow, red and dark blue.

Culture
Kachin: Jingpo
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre, metal, job's tear seed and glass
Made in
“Myanmar: Kachin” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Loom3097/20

Small loom with bars made of two thin wooden sticks with a small woven textile attached between them. The top bar is made of a slightly thicker stick with a dark brown exterior and a light brown core, with the bark removed and rounded ends. The bottom bar is made of a thinner light brown stick with the bark removed and rounded ends. The textile is made with brown and light beige fibres, with rows of thin horizontal stripes at the top and bottom. The textile is connected to the bars of the loom with light beige string wrapped several times around each end and loosely wrapped across the bar. There are 4 stripes at the top and 7 at the bottom. The top half of the weaving is tightly woven in a complex pattern of wide bands, separated by thin stripes, made up of slanted columns patterned with triangular steps, wave motifs, circles, and zigzags. Two of the slanted columns in the second row contain bird(?) motifs, and the central slanted column in the bottom row contains a zoomorphic figure which appears to have a curled tail and paws. The bottom half of the textile is made up of loose, unwoven strands of brown and light beige fibres, which are woven into the bottom thin horizontal striped panel and connected to the bottom of the loom.

Culture
Chancay
Material
wool fibre and wood
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3587/32

Wrap-around skirt (pukhang). Composed of three thin lengths of woven fabric, stitched together on the long edge. Alternating bands of red and dark black-blue run down the length, each band with thin double stripes of the opposing colour running down the centre and terminating with an eight-point asterisk(?). Each end has supplementary patterning(?) in stiff red-brown fibre with three breaks with bands of embroidered geometric shapes - red-brown meander(?) design on dark black-blue ground, red-brown zigzags with white flecks inbetween points on a black-blue ground, and a smaller meander(?) in grey, orange, brown-yellow, dark black-blue over the original weave. Collector's tag sewn to back.

Culture
Kachin: Jingpo
Material
cotton fibre, dye and wool fibre ?
Made in
“Myanmar: Kachin” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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