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Shawl3097/14

Colourful, patterned, woven wool shawl made up of two panels sewn together at the vertical centre with dark brown thread. The left panel is colourful and patterned with a 8 cm black band towards the seam, the innermost third of the right panel is a black ground and the outer two thirds are colourful and patterned. Both panels are patterned with vertical stripes and vertical bands containing zigzag, checkered, striped, and concentric circle patterns. The left panel fades from a wide purple band into the black band, while the right panel has a sharp divide between the patterned and black sections. The shawl is edged with orange stitching, the lower left corner is not edged.

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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Hat3097/27

Dark brown and off-white knitted hat with earflaps and a tassel. The hat is a long cone-shaped cap and has dark brown patterns on an off-white ground. Patterned (top to bottom) with a dark brown band with off-white diamonds made of two triangles, human figures, animals, and wave motifs. The ear flaps are patterned with human figures, and a cow ? figure. The hat is edged with dark brown stitching. Each ear flap has a short dark brown and off-white braided string with a tassel at the end. The top of the hat has a tassel made of yarn.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre
Made in
La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3097/25

Salmon coloured knitted hat with earflaps, patterned with geometric dark brown flowers. The cap of the hat narrows towards the top, with a smaller rounded top end. The pattern on the hat is made up of dark brown flowers on the salmon ground. The flowers are made up of eight drop-shaped petals with thin salmon lines separating them, coming together at the points. The cap is made of one woven piece, sewn together at a seam on the left side where the pattern does not line up. The edge of the cap has a dark brown line with checkers on the bottom. The earflaps are triangular with slightly rounded sides which narrow to a point where a blue woven tie is attached. The earflaps are patterned with a smaller salmon triangle outlined by two triangular dark brown and salmon bands, with a line with dashes across it inside each band. The left earflap is sewn onto the cap with bright pink thread and has a half green, half white pompom at the tip where the tie attaches. The right earflap is sewn on with orange thread.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coca Bag3097/34

Multicoloured woven coca bag with a long thin woven strap, an open top, and a small flap on the front. The bag is made of two woven panels sewn together to form the front and back of the bag. The strap is woven in beige and red and sewn into the inside seams of the bag. The front panel has a beige background with lines of burgundy, pink, neon orange, and neon yellow abstract designs in the centre. These designs are also on the flap, which is located in the top centre of the bag. The bottom edge of the flap consists of loops of wrapped threads in shades of dark blue, red, pink, white, and yellow with tubular wrapped strings with a ball at each end on the bottom corners. The left and right borders on the flap are hot pink. On either side of the central designs are large vertical zigzags surrounded by small horse-like figures, all in red. There is a vertical line of pink abstract designs running through each zig zag, as well as a line of neon yellow and pink abstract designs bordering both sides of the central design. The back panel has a beige background with many vertical and horizontal lines in shades of red, pink, neon yellow, dark green, and neon orange. The left and right borders on both panels are neon orange, dark green, and yellow. The bottom edge of the bag is made up of loops of wrapped threads in shades of pink, white, yellow, orange, red, dark blue, and dark green 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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Fragment: Veil3097/21

Dark blue square woven lace veil. The veil is made up of two rectangular panels stitched together at a seam in the centre. The lace is woven in a diamond grid pattern, with a smaller diamond inside each diamond shape. The weave of the lace is more dense towards the original edges. The dark blue indigo dye has faded to dark green in some areas.

Culture
Chancay
Material
wool fibre and indigo dye
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wall Hanging3655/12

Rectangular wall hanging. The ground is divided into 9 sections with larger middle column and row. The centre row has light grey-beige centre with thin light grey-beige and green sides. The two end rows are green with light grey-beige and solid green sides. The sides have repeating light orange-pink triangles. Along each end is three diamonds, two small orange diamonds and a large orange-pink diamond at centre. Each end finished with a band of light orange, and then looped fringe with green on each side and grey-beige at centre. Tag sewn on back, 'SALISH WEAVING / HANDCRAFTED - FRASER VALLEY / BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA'.

Culture
Coast Salish: Sto:lo
Material
sheep wool fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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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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