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Colourful, patterned, woven wool shawl. The outside vertical thirds are bright patterned panels, the centre third is black with a seam down the centre where the two halves were stitched together. The colourful panels have similar patterns in different colours. The patterns are primarily pink, orange, and red, made up of vertical stripes of varying widths, some of which are patterned with vertical swirls, horizontal zigzags, wave motifs, and checkers. The widest stripe on each panel has a checkered background and a pattern of diamonds with swirls inside.
Basketry baby carrier with woven tumpline; made up of slat foundation and sides covered with coiled cedar bark. Carrier is rounded and wider at head; tapered and narrow at foot. Exterior sides and head walls have a repeating checkered square pattern, alternating between red-brown and black; thin bands of undyed bark in between squares. Exterior wall of foot has two squares with half red-brown and half black checkers. Interior of carrier is undecorated. Thin skin straps and ties threaded through top edge, near four corners and head of carrier; tumpline is attached to skin straps at foot. Tumpline has central diamond design with triangles extending from either side; diamond and triangles are undyed. Negative space around shapes done in black, red, and olive green alternating bands.
Handmade toy vehicle consisting of metal wires coiled together; wires that make up main body are wrapped in assorted plastic, wheels are uncovered. Construction is open with wires making up a rectangular platform for four figures to stand on. All figures are dressed in cotton clothing, and have stuffed heads with faces embroidered on. Male figures on left are playing guitars, and female figures on right are playing drums. Identical guitars are made up of wood and bottle caps; drum in back consists of a large plastic cap, and drum at front is made of bottle caps threaded together. Long curved handle attached to back bottom edge, that bends overtop entire vehicle; for steering and pushing. When toy is moved, all arms move to play instruments.
Dark brown, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. The stitch that connects the panels is a zigzag made up of long sections of red, turquoise, and purple yarn. Weave texture is tight with two horizontal red stripes across the top and bottom of each of the front and back rectangular panels. The red stripes are about 6 cm wide and have a dark blue line through the centre. The outer edge is a separately woven red strip with a red yarn fringe, stitched on with red yarn.
Striped, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. Weave texture is tight and un-patterned, with decoration consisting of a series of horizontal lines of varying widths in dark red, dark blue, black, orange, light beige, dark brown, yellow-brown, and light brown. The outer edge is a separately woven strip with red, orange, and light brown stripes, stitched on with light beige and red string. The edge has a short, uneven fringe made of red, orange, brown, and light beige fibres. Corners are rounded by folding back.
A small knitted cap (chullu) made of handspun and dyed fibre, probably sheep’s wool. Birds and geometric designs.
A pair of protective sleeves (mangas, maquitas) knitted in hand-spun sheep’s wool, including undyed (black and white) and colours dyed with aniline dyes. Geometric designs predominate, plus figurative foxes.
Wasa watana (hair tie). A braided hair tie made in the combined techniques of oblique interlacing (brown threads) and oblique twining (white and red). One end of the hair tie has a tassel made of 3 bands (1 intersecting warp), but the main band just above the other tassel is broken and sewn back together. The other end of the hair tie has a tassel made of 4 bands (1 intersecting warp and one sewn on band).
Wasa watana (hair tie). A hair tie that is made in a mixture of techniques: oblique interlaced bands with zigzag embroidery for the main band and woven bands made in complementary warp weave that intersect with the main band. Each end has two intersecting bands, and two of those also have intersecting bands. Each end has three tassels made of three bands. Most of the secondary intersecting bands are braided. Combination of techniques used: braiding, weaving and embroidery.
Wasa watana (hair tie) woven in a complementary warp weave. Tassels formed by adding intersecting warps that are woven as separate bands. Warp fringes. Each end has one intersecting warp band, which makes a tassel with three woven bands. Alpaca and sheep’s wool, finely spun.