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Belt1646/11

Narrow belt of wide white band with pink and green geometric shapes, building and bird. Thin pink and green strips on either side, and a green and pink band with white squares runs along both selvedges. Fringe at one end. Strings attached at either end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf1646/5

Striped scarf with wide white middle band of green and dark red geometric designs and birds. Middle band flanked by three red parallel stripes, one in middle with purple and white. Smaller white band with geometric and bird designs near each selvedge, red and black stripe at edges.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag1593/8

Rectangular shaped bag with red and white braided wool strap and edging along with four red tassels hanging from the bottom. The bag has repeated blue and green stripes with cream geometric patterns of triangles, circles and line, all on a red ground. There is a slit opening at the top.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
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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SpindleSf976

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with cup-shaped whorl positioned near one end. The whorl is roughly circular and smoothed by abrasion. A small cone of z spun yarn is wrapped on the shaft above the whorl and a handful of unspun white wool is attached to the twisted yarn. The fleece has some kemp or coarse hairs.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and wood
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltSf909

Belt with a large central patterned band, smaller lateral bands, blue and green lines flanking each lateral band, and a red, green and white band with squares that flanks the centre band and green. One end is fringed with braided threads tied together with a re-plied cord. The central band contains bird, fish and geometric motifs, and the lateral bands contain geometric motifs. The remainder of the belt is red.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PonchoSf982

Poncho made of black woven wool with six thin red vertical stripes and a vertical neck slit with overcast edges. Composed of two complete loom widths with four selvedges which are sewn together with a flat figure eight stitch along one side except for the area of the neck slit. Two ends of a replied cord hang from the fabric near the neck slit.

Culture
Quechua
Material
alpaca wool fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf923 a-n

Horizontal ground loom (parts a-n) with a partially woven red textile attached to the wooden front beam by bright lashing cords (part b). The woven cloth has five pattern bands and four bands of stripes in red, white, green and yellow. The geometric patterns are of circles, diamonds, crosses and figurative patterns of birds and fish. Intertwined in the textile are numerous parts: cylindrical shaped shed roll (part m) is in position between two layers of warps and back warp beam (part n) holds the loops of the unworked warps. The shuttle stick (part c) is wound with red weft and is attached to the fabric. Heddle stick (part d) has green cord loops. Shed stick (part f) and (part k) are in position under threads in the pattern areas. Ground stakes (parts g-j) are loose as is the pick (part f) and the shed holder and beater (part e). A braided brown, black and cream alpaca rope (part a) is used to keep the loom and tools together when rolled.

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