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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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Coca Bag3097/31

Black and off-white coca bag with coloured accents, a long thin black woven strap, and a small flap on the front. Made of two woven panels sewn together to form the front and back of the bag, with the top open. The strap is sewn into the inside seams of the bag. The front panel has black and coloured patterns on an off-white ground. There are five rows of black horse figures in profile with a line connecting the back to a rectangular shape above the back of each horse, and a small circle between the legs of the horses on the top and bottom row. Each row of horses is facing in an alternating direction, creating five columns of horse figures alternating direction. The central column of horse figures is bordered with two thin bands patterned with purple and dark green triangles with a white zigzag between them, and a mirrored dark blue pattern of triangles in another band outside those. There is a small flap with the same pattern as the central column, including the purple and dark green triangles, connected at the top of the flap and edged in white, 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 black, purple, blue, and off-white. Each bottom corner of the flap has a long tubular wrapped string with a small ball made of the same wrapped threads at the end. The top and bottom edges of the front panel have a black and off-white stripe. The right and left edges have a thin band patterned with dark purple and blue diamonds. The back panel of the bag is a black ground with two vertical purple stripes creating a centre band, with horizontal off-white lines across the bottom two thirds, a blank section of ground, and a patterned band across the top. The band has white stripes across the top and bottom, a stripe in the centre, and circles along the central stripe. The top and side borders of the bag are black, with a purple, off-white, and dark green checkered side edge connecting the panels. The bottom edge of the bag is made up of loops of wrapped threads in shades of black, purple, blue, and off-white with a wrapped thread ball at each corner and in the centre. Each ball has two long 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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Coca Bag3097/30

Multicoloured woven coca bag with a long thin black 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 sewn into the inside seams of the bag. The front panel has an off-white ground with a vertical coloured band in the centre patterned with alternating diamonds and X shapes made up of green, blue, purple, and brown vertical stripes. The central band has borders with alternating green and blue square sections patterned with asterisk-like shapes. On either side of the central band are two columns with horse figures, which have a line connecting their backs to a parallelogram shape above each horse. The horse figures are in profile and the rows of two are alternately facing the same direction or facing each other. The border outside of these columns has alternating green and pink square sections with asterisk-like shapes. The front panel has a small flap covering the second quarter of the central coloured band, in the same pattern, attached at the top and open on the inside of the bag creating a small pocket. The flap is edged on the sides with tubular wrapped threads, and on the bottom with loops of wrapped thread. The bottom corners of the flap each have a tubular wrapped thread with a ball made of wrapped threads at the end. The wrapped threads are in shades of blue, green, purple, off-white, and black. The back panel has a dark blue ground with a vertical central section of green, blue, purple, and brown vertical stripes. There is a horizontal band at the top with an off-white pattern of diagonal lines inside horizontal stripes. The rest of the top half is blank ground. The bottom half of the panel has thin horizontal off-white stripes. The side and top edges of each panel of the bag have a light blue border with a green, off-white, and pink checkered edge connecting the panels. The bottom of the bag is edged with wrapped thread loops in shades of green, blue, purple, off-white, and black, with a ball made of the wrapped thread loops at each corner and in the centre. Two tubular wrapped threads are attached at each ball and have another ball at the 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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Skirt3587/41

Wrap around skirt composed of three lengths of fabric, sewn together on long edges. The wrap is woven with red, dark black-blue, and light orange red stripes on a beige ground. Both ends have supplementary patterning(?) in stiff red-brown or black fibre creating a diamond pattern. Along the inner edges of the supplementary patterning, and along the bottom edge, is embroidery in red, green, black, and beige. Collector's tag is sewn to back.

Culture
Kachin: Maru
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
“Myanmar: Kachin” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth3587/37

Rectangular cloth with black background. The top edge is cut or unfinished. The lower half has a red edging, stitched in yellow and is embroidered in dark pink, dark purple, light pink, green, and yellow. 18 tassels hang along the bottom edge, some in pairs, each starting with a short length of fused beading in silver or green in colour, followed by a black pompom and then lengths of plaited red string tassels. Collector's tag sewn to interior.

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