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A narrow strip of tapestry with stepped ends. Angular, interlocking bird motifs in green or blue with yellow beaks and eyes and red outlines. Interior of bird bodies are filled with small red motifs. The fabric is intact, including two weft selvedges and the original bound finish on the warp selvedges. Structure is under-float tapestry with vertical slits and some eccentric wefts.
A small square of light brown woven cotton half fitted with a brocaded step triangle. Blue diamond shapes branching off oblique lines fill the step triangle in a regular way. The exact negative image fills the background space. One warp selvedge with green heading wefts and one weft selvedge are present. There are two cut edges. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns.
Rectangular fragment of a slit tapestry band with four zigzag design registers. Primarily yellow with several shades of red, black and green as accents. Two registers have designs of interlocking hooks and one register has designs of profile birds. The fourth register has an irregular shaped design with rudimentary facial features. One warp selvedge and two weft selvedges are present.
Piece of a narrow, dark brown openwork textile with profile standing birds arranged along serrated diagonal lines. The ground cloth is 1:1 gauze in vertical alignment. The birds are worked with discontinuous supplementary brown wefts with accents in gold, grey and light green. One warp selvedge and two weft selvedges are present; the other end is cut. The weave is consistently distorted along the sides about 1cm. in from the selvedges. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns.
Rectangular gauze-weave head cloth of blue, orange, yellow and white threads in a plaid-like arrangement. Composed of two separate loom widths sewn together along the weft selvedges. A yellow camelid heading area is on both ends of one width and red ones are on the other. The cloth is intact. S-twist yarns (cotton), z-spun, 2 plied s (cotton and camelid) yarns.
Cut square of light brown cotton, woven fabric with a blue brocade design. The brocade area is in the shape of a step triangle and fills over half the fragment. Blue diamond shapes branching off oblique lines fill the step triangle in a regular way. The exact negative image fills the background space. One warp and one weft selvedge are present; the other two edges are cut.
Square of light brown cotton textile with a blue brocade pattern in a partial rectangle. The brocade pattern is a cross design made of four tiny squares, repeated inside a diamond shaped lattice. One warp and one weft selvedge are present; the other two edges are cut.
A piece of red slit tapestry with parts of three frontal humans in horizontal row. They are yellow, red, black and white but in varying proportions. They wear an elaborate headdress and a flaring tunic. Feet are splayed and arms and hands are raised. Yellow and black stripes with an interlocking red spiral make up the border on two sides. Parts of three finished edges are present.
An assortment of 1200 unstrung beads. Most of the beads are green, blue, grey or blue-green in colour. Their shape is generally discoid or cylindrical.
An assortment of 542 unstrung stone and shell beads in a container. Colours range from blue, to green, orange, black, grey and white. There is a single bead of rolled sheet metal.