Rope Item Number: Sf949 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A long braided rope in three naturally occurring colours of llama fibre. Colours are arranged in a herringbone effect. Knot at each end and a few centimeters of plying. Several frayed areas; one section re-braided with an extra white cord; one section has come unbraided where two cords are broken. Badly frayed in four places.
History Of Use
Ropes are used in a number of daily tasks including weaving. Women lash the loom bars of the horizontal ground loom with ropes to stakes driven in the ground. Llamas are not raised on Taquile so ropes are often traded for between the Taquilenos and their trading partners who herd camelids at higher altitudes.
Narrative
Bought from Dionysia Marca Quispe, a young married woman, along with her belt loom.
Specific Techniques
Yarn is spun s, plied 2 z and braided in 2:2 oblique interlacing with 5 strands.
Cultural Context
weaving
Item History
- Made by Dionisia Marca Quispe (Maker) in Taquile, Puno, Peru before May 1984
- Collected by Mary Frame during 1984
- Owned by Mary Frame before May 8, 1986
- Received from Mary Frame (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Shop Volunteers (Funding source) on May 8, 1986
What
- Name
- Rope
- Identification Number
- Sf949
- Type of Item
- rope
- Material
- llama wool fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- spun, braided and plied
- Overall
- height 310.3 cm, width 3.3 cm, depth 1.1 cm
Who
- Culture
- Quechua
- Creator
- Dionisia Marca Quispe (Maker)
- Field Collector
- Mary Frame
- Previous Owner
- Mary Frame
- Received from
- Mary Frame (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Shop Volunteers (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Taquile, Puno, Peru
When
- Creation Date
- before May 1984
- Collection Date
- during 1984
- Ownership Date
- before May 8, 1986
- Acquisition Date
- on May 8, 1986
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1131/0009