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Vest, man's, made from a piece of handspun, hand-woven bayeta (burlap) covered with hot pink castilla cloth of machine-woven wool on the front. The vest is adorned with bright green and blue cotton bands, and white and yellow rickrack. Machine embroidery, dominated by floral designs, decorate the pockets and edges. A large flower is embroidered above each pocket. A stand-up collar is formed by a flap of embroidered castilla at the back centre.
Small, long sleeved unbleached cotton shirt. Piped edge in place of collar. Neckline slit down to mid-centre of shirt. Stylized v-shape design in red and green below neck, and on either side of neckline. Front bottom of shirt longer than the back.
Jacket, girl's, made of dark blue wool with red and green applique. There are green edges on the pockets, cuffs, and front edges. A band of red applique is attachee parallel to the green. Diamond-shaped elbow patches are sewn to the jacket at the corners. The jacket is embroidered over the red and green applique, on the front, on the pockets, on the cuffs and on the diamond patches in light blue, white, yellow, and green cotton thread.
Woven belt with blue edges. Finished with one braided end with braids sewn together and one loom cord end. Thin woven ties in same colours attached to both ends. The belt is warp faced and warp patterned. The pattern weave is a three span float complementary weave in the pink and maroon area and reverses on the other side. Overall pattern is diamond shaped. Three green and yellow strips in same pattern near edges and in middle. The commercial wool has an extra twist added by hand spindle; white yarn is a two ply handspun yarn.
Woven, wool hat, conical in shape with semi-circular indentation in the rim. The bottom edge is scalloped with stripes of navy, red, yellow and cream. The body of the hat is detailed with a cream geometric pattern with yellow, navy and yellow detailing on a red ground. The top section is solid brown with a red tassel attached at the point.
Piece of yellow (originally) slit tapestry border. Detailed bird forms, with a long hooked beak and comb-like tail feathers are attached to step triangles and repeated in alternating shades of reds and yellows. The bird has an outlined eye and this same form is repeated in the corners of the triangles. Narrow red borders outline the bird pattern band. The tapestry figures are not outlined. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns; a few red threads z-spun.
A fragmentary slit tapestry border in two reds and yellow with attached fringe. The main band has interlocking red and yellow serpent bodies with serrated edges and black outlining. Narrow bands with interlocking hooks in red and light red are sewn to both sides and a separately woven red fringe is attached to one outer edge. More coarsely woven than most. Very thick warps of fringe are replied z after z-spin and 2 ply s.
An irregular cut piece of natural brown cotton with red and brown deer arranged alternately in a rectangular grid. The grid is defined by alternating red and brown lines in warp and weft directions. The deer is shown in profile, with tail, two antlers and a speckled body. Two original edges remain: a warp selvedge with heading cords and a weft selvedge that appears to be hemmed with ancient thread. Z-spun single in warp; s-spun singles in weft; z-spun, singles in weft; z-spun, two ply alpaca yarns.
A rectangular, striped fabric with fringes. Lengthwise stripes in deep, strong shades of red-brown, off white, dark yellow and black. The colours alternate quite regularly but the width of the stripes vary. Cross-wise white borders are joined to the main body by a scaffold cord, not sewn. Two rows of countered weft twining with bunches of dark yellow and black threads secure the woven borders and stabilize the warp fringe; totally made of camelid (alpaca ?) yarns. Z spun, two plied s yarns.
Two rectangular textile fragments of yellow and white slit tapestry with design bands separated by horizontal stripes (part a and b). The major design band, which appears on both fragments, is a series of chevrons with avian-feline(?) composites, triangles and interlocking spirals in adjacent chevrons. Part a, the larger fragment, also has a band of profile birds and another of interlocking spirals. A separately woven fringe is sewn to the warp selvedge. Fragments of blue sewing thread remain on the single weft selvedge.