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Shawl Pin3097/74

Shawl pin with acute long point and dangling metal chains. Superior part of pin has a band of engraved flowers with diagonal dashes in between, blue gems at the ends and a peacock design above a green gem surrounded by a lion and flowers at its left and one bird and anthropomorphic figures at other side, over leaf designs. Ten dangling metal chains have different figures at the ends: three circular and three rectangular plates, three animals and one knife.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
silver alloy metal and glass
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl Pin3097/73

Spoon shaped pin. Sun decoration with blue and orange glass gems. Sad face in centre surrounded by engraved circles over horizontal crescent moon. Two spoons with shallow surface and flowering motif at lower sides of moon decoration; one has two dangling metal chains with one knife and figures at the ends. Two holes for suspension at spoon base, green gem between them and acute long point below. Incomplete.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
silver alloy metal and glass
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl Pin3097/72

Triple spoon pin. Shallow oval surface shape on top with diagonal dashes in rim and flowering motif with orange and blue glass gems in flattened borders. Two small spoons with flowering motifs at lower sides of main spoon; one has two holes for missing charms. Two holes for suspension at spoons base and acute long point below.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
silver alloy metal and glass
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl Pin3097/71

Articulated fish with vertical bands of incised dashes forming semilunar designs and small vent pins protruding in dorsal and ventral body. A short metal chain in its mouth connects the fish with the pin. A rectangular purple stone bead is an ending string connector. Superior part of metal pin has one peacock design standing in a "v" leaf motif.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
silver alloy metal and quartzite stone ?
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl Pin3097/70

Articulated fish with two yellow-orange applied glass gems in pectoral fins and body with incised double circles joined together by diagonal lines of short dashes. Small vent pins are protruding in dorsal and ventral body and a short metal chain in its mouth is connecting the fish with a globular shaped cross pin. Superior part of pin has three peacock designs with one bird at both lateral sides of cross; one red gem in cross centre and one blue gem at leaf, near hand design.

Culture
Bolivian
Material
silver alloy metal and glass
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1407/1

Rectangular piece of dark blue fabric with embroidered gemetric pattern at one end in off-white, brown, pink and purple.

Culture
Thai
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/4

A rectangular black cloth with a wide patterned band lengthwise across the lower half. The side and bottom edges of the cloth are hemmed in black and red, with a white zigzag stitch along the edge. The band has five horizontal rows, three of which are patterned with white thread and some red in the background, and two of which are black with two horizontal white lines through them. The top and bottom row have a double zigzag pattern. The rest of the row is patterned with diamond shapes. The middle row has a repeating diamond pattern, with smaller diamonds inside the larger ones. The top, middle, and bottom rows have a space in the pattern towards the right edge where the background colour is visible without pattern.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/3

A rectangular brown-black cloth with a wide patterned band lengthwise across the lower third. The band is made up of thick red and pink horizontal stripes and thin purple and green stripes. The pattern is a thin repeating vertical zigzag in tan. The zigzags have spirals on each outer point. There is a vertical band towards the left edge of the pattern where the zigzags stop and the tan fibre is woven straight across.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3097/8

Woman's mantle. 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. Collector label sewn on the back of the bottom left corner.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
dye and alpaca wool fibre
Made in
Macha, Potosi, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/2

A rectangular black cloth with a wide, colourful, patterned band lengthwise across the lower half. The side and bottom edges of the cloth are bordered in red, with green and pink dots along the edge. The band has three horizontal rows, each patterned with horse motifs in profile. The top and bottom row have a dark red background, and the middle row has a background of horizontal red, black, and green stripes. There are colourful patterned borders between the rows. All three rows begin (left-right) with two horses, the bottom four facing down and the top two facing up. All the rows have a space in the pattern where the background colour is visible without pattern. After the space, the horses in the top and bottom rows are alternately facing up and down the cloth in pairs, repeated across the textile. The middle row has a horizontal zigzag line with spirals on either side, bordered by another line. In the empty triangles made by the zigzag pattern, is a single horse motif facing away from the middle of the row. There are also alpaca(?) and dog(?) motifs in some triangular spaces along with the horse.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, synthetic dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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