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Fragment: Sling3263/69

Fragment of a sling. Cradle and handles all trimmed in dark brown-black. Cradle is dark yellow-brown with an inner dark brown-black border. Inside of the border there is a plain line through the middle and has alternating brown and red triangles on either side of the line. Split in middle of cradle. Triangle pattern extends into handles. End of right handle is missing. Left handle extends into tightly woven brown-black braid.

Culture
Inca ?
Material
camelid wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Headband3263/74 a-f

Six fragments of a tubular headband. Consists of a central section (part a), four braids (parts b-e) and a wrapped cord (part f). Central section(?) of headband (part a) has design of vertical stripes across entire surface. Main body of section is cream. Stripes done in dark blue-grey, light green-grey, peach, red and yellow. Middle of part a is mainly red. Parts b and c are solid cream coloured braids. Part b's right side is wrapped in red thread. Dark blue-grey cords wrapped in intervals along right side, causing red threads to bulge through in three circular tufts. Part c's left side naturally curves downwards. Right side of part c ends in two smaller branches. Section before split and both branches wrapped in red thread with dark blue-grey cords wrapped in intervals along them. Parts d and e are solid pink coloured braids. Part d has a dark blue-grey cord wrapped around its left edge and long pink fringe. Part e is a plain braid with a left side that curves downwards naturally. Part f is cream coloured and its right side ends in two smaller branches. Dark blue-grey cords wrap around entire length at intervals bordered by dark purple lines. Likely that the cream fragments (parts b and c) were on one side of the central section (part a) and the pink fragments (parts d and e) were on the other side.

Culture
Andes
Material
camelid wool fibre, cotton fibre, plant fibre ? and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Garment3263/42

Fragment of a garment. Two pieces of cloth sewn together along the top edge. Front cloth is rectangular in shape, brown and has a three by eight square grid across centre. Square backgrounds are all light brown-red. Designs in each square alternate between birds and pairs of stepped ladders with dots in their centres. Ladders are same brown as background of overall fragment. Birds are black. White semi-circles, with upside down black-brown triangles inside them, along top edge of front cloth. Back cloth is triangular in shape and plain white-brown.

Culture
Chancay
Material
dye, cotton fibre and camelid wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Headband3263/73 a-b

Two fragments of a tubular headband. Both have alternating bands of red and yellow yarn along their lengths. Left side of largest fragment (part a) curves downwards slightly and has a short brown yarn strand extending from it. Right side has three yarn strands extending from the fragment. Two are short, straight and brown. The third is long, spiraling and has alternating red and yellow tufts along it. Smallest fragment (part b) curves upwards slightly at both ends. Left side of part b has three straight strands of brown yarn extending from it. Right side has three strands of yarn extending from it. Two are straight and brown, one is spiraling and has red tufts along it.

Culture
Andes
Material
dye, camelid wool fibre and plant fibre ?
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sash3382/8

Woven wool sash with decorative motifs in light tan on a red background, appearing in opposite colours on the reverse side. Running down the length, on either side, is a band of repeating pinkish-red and green squares. Ends are unfinished.

Culture
Mapuche
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sash3382/7

Woven wool sash with decorative motifs in light tan on a red background, appearing in opposite colours on the reverse side. Running down the length, on either side, is a band of repeating pinkish-red and green squares, with a yellow outline. Ends are unfinished.

Culture
Mapuche
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blanket3382/6

Square-shaped woven blanket with tassels in each corner. Made of horizontal bands of bright rose pink, orange, dark green, light purple-grey, grey and burgundy. Both top and bottom edges finished with a loop(?) stitch. Three of the bands - two bright rose pink, and one orange (across the middle) contain a checkerboard pattern within.

Culture
Mapuche
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3382/4

Dark brown poncho with three beige horizontal bands with geometric designs within. Both sides have looped fringe. At centre, a horizontal opening for the wearer's head, which is reinforced with light brown stitching. On the back, the geometric designs are not as visible.

Culture
Mapuche
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3382/5

Black poncho with three vertical bands of a beige diamond pattern - each containing four diamonds. Top and bottom edges have fringe. At centre, a vertical opening for the wearer's head.

Culture
Mapuche
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chile
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3305/14

Red-orange woolen scarf with multi-coloured stripes and designs. Twisted dark green fringe on both sides. Right edge has wide white border and left edge has wide orange border. Scarf length has twelve decorated bands, which have alternating red-orange and white backgrounds with stripes between the bands. Stripes are dark blue, light blue, light green, dark green, red, light orange and white. Patterns woven onto bands with a red-orange background done red, light orange, white, light blue, dark blue, dark green, light green and dark brown. Designs are diamonds, zig-zags and flower-like shapes. Patterns woven onto bands with white background done in dark blue, light blue, light orange, dark green and light green. Designs are geometric shapes and flower-like shapes.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
wool fibre
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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