Coca Bag Item Number: 3097/32 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Multicoloured woven coca bag with a long thin twisted woven strap and an open top, with a small flap on the front. Made of two woven panels sewn together to form the front and back of the bag. The strap is woven in yellow, orange, and red, with a pattern of small tan circles, sewn into the inside seams of the bag. The strap is knotted just above the attachment to the bag on both sides. The front panel has a light tan ground with a column of red, orange, yellow, and green stripes in the centre creating a pattern of repeating horse figures with a line connecting to a small rectangle above their backs. The horse figures are bordered by tan columns and then thin columns of alternating orange and green blocks. There is a small flap with the same pattern as the central column connected at the top of the flap, and open on the inside of the bag creating a small pocket. The bottom edge of the flap is made up of loops of wrapped threads, in shades of green, white, orange, pink, and red. Each bottom corner of the flap has a long tubular wrapped string with a small elongated ball made of the same wrapped threads at the end. Outside the striped column are two wider columns patterned in dark red with a wide zigzag made up of two thin dark red lines with asterisk shapes inside, and horse figures with a line connecting to a rectangle above their backs, bird figures, and small oval shapes with a short horizontal line on one side outside of the zigzag pattern. The outside of these wide columns is a stripe of alternating light pink and green blocks. The back panel has a dark red ground with a matching green, yellow, orange, and red striped column in the centre, with light tan patterns. There is a row along the top of the panel with two lines with small squares spaced along the inside of the row on the lines, a wide row of blank ground, and the bottom half of the panel is patterned with thin horizontal tan lines. Both panels are bordered in yellow and connected at the right and left edge with a tan zigzag patterned edge with green and orange in the borders. The bottom edge of the bag is made up of loops of wrapped threads in shades of green, white, tan, yellow, orange, red, and pink with a wrapped thread ball at each corner. The right ball has two tubular wrapped strings with a ball at each end, the left ball only has one, as well as two in the centre of the bottom edge.