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Head ClothSf387

Rectangular black cloth with a multi-coloured yarn tassel on each corner. Narrow crocheted edging alternating bright colours extends across the two hemmed ends and partially around the corners. The colours are shades of red, orange, yellow, green and blue.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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JacketSf385

Short black jacket with long sleeves and a half collar. The jacket is decorated with four coloured tassel-like ties in pink, green and yellow arranged on each side of the front opening and the sleeve hems are edged with coloured crochet. The lower jacket edge and collar have white facings.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf1018 a-g

Loom (part a-g) consisting of a partly woven belt with unwoven warps, attached shedding devices and accompanying wooden and bone tools. The symmetrically striped warp and belt section has three chevron bands flanked by rainbow colour stripes set against a dark red ground. There are cylindrical loom bars at each end; the bottom bar is part c. In the middle are three sticks with string heddles and a shed roll (part b). In addition, there is one stick with a flattened point and another straight (part d), round stick for rolling the cloth (part e). Two small skeins of blue yarn extend from each side of the woven web at the final row. There is a slightly smoothed bone pick (part f) and a length of brown cords (part g) is used to tie the bundle together.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wood, bone and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BodiceSf1015

Bodice composed of a rectangle of black fabric sewn together at the ends to form a tube. The two corners that are not sewn together are darned with a thick black thread, which replaces the cloth. Three fine red stripes run horizontally.

Culture
Quechua
Material
alpaca wool fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Teaching LoomSf380

A teaching loom consisting of a partially woven tubular fabric with unwoven threads passing through punctured holes in a rectangle of corrugated cardboard and knotted behind. The pattern is made up of repeated white and blue lozenge pattern on a red ground with green and pink stripes. A pair of red weft yarns extend from the final woven row. A clear, plastic cylindrical shaped bar has been passed through the threads.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, paper, plastic and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fringe LoomSf1009

A loom with an incomplete textile; the shedding device is a number of narrow sticks with one hole in the centre of each which are lashed together leaving narrow spaces. This is lashed to a longer round stick. The unwoven warps are threaded through the holes and the spaces between sticks. 241 cm of unwoven warp twist together on one side of the shedding device. On the other side is 33 cm of unwoven warp and 304 cm of woven band with fringe like loops extending from one side. The band is speckled grey and the fringes alternate areas of grey with short areas of red, blue, white and green. At the junction of the woven band and unwoven warp, two weft of cross threads are attached to the textile. One is a small grey finger skein and the other is also grey but is wound on the shaft of a wooden spindle with a cone shaped whorl.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre, wood and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSf1000

Red gathered skirt with a colourful striped waistband and lime green cording on the lower edge. Placket opening at the waist with extensions of waistband as tie closures. One pleat, parallel to hem extends around the skirt. Inside of lower edge is faced with off-white fabric.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NeedleSf1024

Large metal needle with a lenticular eye at one end and a flattened point at the other end. A cross section of the shaft is roughly circular. The shaft has a number of bumps and bows. The surface is only roughly finished with scrapes and dents visible to the naked eye. The surface is powdered with rust. The top end of the needle eye has broken through and is now pinched closed.

Culture
Quechua
Material
metal
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NeedleSf1023

Long metal needle with a lenticular eye at one end and a flattened point at the other end. A cross section of the shaft is roughly circular. The shaft has a number of bumps and bows. The surface is only roughly finished with scrapes and dents visible to the naked eye. The surface is powdered with rust.

Culture
Quechua
Material
metal
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Plying SpindleSf1022

Spindle, consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl near one end with a conical, wrapped section of plied yarn resting on the flat surface of the whorl. The middle of the shaft has a section of losing wound, plied yarn which is attached to a compactly wound round ball of paired yarns. The yarn wound around the shaft is tightly plied while the yarn in the ball is not plied.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wood, wool fibre, hair and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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