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MatEf200

Rectangular grass mat of fine regular weave. The mat has a large border around all sides in red on a natural-coloured ground. The border has many bands ranging in thickness, some with geometric motifs. The centre is without design. Long weaving threads are long and tied off at one end.

Culture
Bengali
Material
grass, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Dehati, West Bengal, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatEf199

Rectangular grass mat of fine regular weave. The mat has a large border around all sides in purple on a natural-coloured ground. The border has many bands ranging in thickness and motifs. The outer band has a geometric motif. The middle band has a floral motif. The band closest to the centre has a pair of elephants on one end and horses on the other, all facing inwards. The centre is without design. Long weaving threads are tied off at one end.

Culture
Bengali
Material
grass, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Kholaberia, West Bengal, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShirtSf964

Shirt with a stand-up collar, slash neck opening, gathered shoulders, and gathered sleeves with cuffs. There are rectangular insets under the arms and short slash openings at the bottom of both side seams as well as above each cuff opening. A cord is attached to one edge of each cuff.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre ? and wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtAf460

Skirt composed of a rectangle of cloth with 28 rectangular printed designs of flowers, birds and geometric designs in light blue on dark blue.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
indigo dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlAf459

Heavy silk and cotton rectangular shawl with fringe on both ends. White lozenge pattern on a blue ground. The overall design is made by continuous weft pattern. Warp-faced plain overall weave with supplementary weft pattern.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Okene, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlAf458

Warp-faced plain weave shawle with continuous weft pattern laid into background wefts. Weft is dark blue and the warp alternates yellow and green silk resulting in a horizontal striped pattern. Geometric pattern stripes in white and dark blue in the continuous weft pattern laid in between the background weft. One green and one gold selvedge.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Okene, Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltSf1007

Belt with dark red and black lengthwise stripes on a light grey-brown background. In the centre is a series of black toothed lines flanked by solid black lines. To each side is a smaller series of red toothed lines and along the weft selvedges are solid black lines. One end of the belt is finished withe a fringe of braids, which are joined together by three loops of cord and are then tied to a single cord. Another cord is attached in three places to the selvedge at the other end and a long, single strand of this cord extends as a tie.

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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Coca ClothSf396

Coca cloth made of off-white wool with three wide predominantly red bands with green, yellow and purple and pink stripes and thin bands of geometric pattern. Four narrow red and green stripes alternate with the wider groups. Red, green and pink stripes are placed near the edges, parallel to the other stripes.

Culture
Quechua
Material
alpaca wool fibre, synthetic fibre, sheep wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagEf253

Small drawstring bag of black hand-woven cotton in plain weave. Geometric motif is embroidered in contrasting colours of white, purple, and yellow which closely follow the warp and weft of the fabric. Lined with black mill cloth. Machine seamed. Hand sewn to finish. Drawstring of three-strand, twisted cotton in red and white with orange cotton tassels.

Culture
Bihari
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Bihar, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Winnowing BasketEf252

Natural coloured basketry. Flat at one end and turned up and rounded at back to about 7 cm high; shallow scoop-like shape. Raw edges of weaving are caught between double strips of 2 cm. wide cane and lashed together.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
stem ?
Made in
Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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