Shawl Item Number: 3097/9 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Colourful, patterned, woven wool shawl. The left and right edges have a 5 cm vertical band of thin stripes. The outside vertical thirds, inside the stripes, are brown panels, the centre third is colourful and patterned with a seam down the centre where the two halves were stitched together with orange thread. The patterns in the centre panel are made up of vertical dark red, yellow, orange, and green stripes, along with thin checkered stripes and thicker stripes made of rectangles with bi-colour animal figures on a white ground.
Worn by women as a shawl (ahuayo; mantle).
Pebble weave with an alternating warp order. Natural dyes and pink aniline dye.