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Textile1067/7

The woven textile has a light and dark brown geometric motif twisting together in a step pattern. The motif begins along the finished edge of the textile as a border and then moves diagonally in the step pattern. To one side of the diagonal pattern the textile is brown without design. To the other side of the diagonal the textile is red with a brown zigzag and dot design.

Culture
Chancay
Material
wool fibre, dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/17

The brown and off-white woven textile has four panels featuring a beaver-like creature. Each panel is filled by a beaver-like creature with a tall tail, large teeth, one arm raised and one arm out-stretched. The panel is otherwise decorated with triangles, crosses, dots and many stitches inside boxes. Two panels adjacent are mirror images of one another. In the same way, the lower panels are mirror images of the two upper panels. Above the panels there are two smaller, separated squares with partial designs.

Culture
Wari
Material
cotton fibre, dye and wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/5

Tapestry fragment. Square of off-white woven textile with a design beginning in the corner, arranged in diagonal rows. The design is a serpent head with three spikes on the body. The pattern is repeated in a row in one colour, with the exact negative image filling the background in another colour. The colours include red, pink, brown, blue and yellow. The end of the textile has a horizontal border of red and white negative image swirls. Attached to the border is a thick, flat woven fringe.

Culture
Chancay
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/12

A piece of red tapestry with two frontal humans in a vertical row. They are yellow, red, blue, green, 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. The background for the first figure is red, the background for the second is green. Multicoloured squares attached with a common line make up the border on two sides of the figures. At the finished end of the textile, there is a yellow fringe attached to the red tapestry.

Culture
Wari
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/14

The textile is striped with shades of brown. The stripes alternate between off-white, light brown, off-white and dark brown. All lines are outlined in dark blue. One of the edges is finished.

Culture
Chancay
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/20 a-b

Two pieces (part a and b) of a dark brown woven textile, approximately the same size. Each rectangular piece has a string fringe at both ends, one finished edge and one frayed edge.

Culture
Chancay
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/19

A small abstract multicoloured textile. The sections are separated by white lines in a diamond shape and the diamond shapes are separated by vertical white lines. The background section colours are red, pink, light green, dark green, light brown and black. The shapes within the sections are random and multicoloured half circles, steps and squares. Two of the edges appear to have been cut.

Culture
Wari
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/3

The woven textile is striped with shades of brown and blue. The thin stripes alternate between dark brown, light blue, light brown and light blue again. All the lines are outlined in dark blue. None of the edges are finished.

Culture
Chancay
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1067/10

The textile is a deep red with a centre panel of woven figures. The centre panel has three complete squares and three partial squares. Each square has a background colour of deep red, light brown, dark brown or blue. The figure within the square has a triangular head with an appendage to each side, large eyes, extended arms and square feet. The figures are woven in blue, red, white, light and dark brown.

Culture
Wari ?
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head Cloth1067/16 a-b

Black cotton cloth with separately woven embroidered bands. Woven red border on two sides. The border has a geometric motif of a two circles and a 'V' outlined inside of a triangle, separated by lines covered in small triangles. The motif is done in black, green and yellow. Part b is a portion of the red border that has become separated from the textile.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Paracas, Ica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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