Shawl Item Number: 3097/13 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Rectangular brown shawl with a wide striped band along the left edge and a wide stripe along the right edge. The brown ground has a seam in the centre where the two halves are stitched together with brown thread. The left two thirds of the bottom edge, the left edge, and the left third of the top edge are finished with orange and light brown diamond shaped edging, while the other areas are un edged. The wide band along the left edge is striped with alternating orange, red, and purple-grey. A thick stripe towards the left edge is made of alternating blocks of pink and light tan, patterned with swirls, and with thin red, pink, and purple stripes along the edges with wave motifs. The stripe along the right edge is a light brown band with thin stripes of light tan, orange, and grey along the edges.
Worn by women as a shawl (ahuayo; mantle).
'S' and 'Z' spun yarns, plain coloured stripes alternating with stripes of complementary warp in double weave. Pink aniline dye.