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Hair Tie3097/65

Multicoloured fibre cord with a loop on the top and a large tassel ornament on the end. The cord and loop are light grey and white with dark and light shades of brown. The cord is decorated with diamonds in various shades of brown. A large light grey-brown tassel is attached near the bottom of the cord with orange fibre. Several wrapped cords (possibly extensions of the main cord ?) emerge from underneath this tassel. These cords are light grey, dark brown, brown-orange, light brown-yellow, and/or red and are mostly covered by the light grey-brown tassel. A smaller red tassel is attached to these cords with orange and light blue fibre. The cords extend through the red tassel and lead into four tassels, each a different colour: dark and light shades of purple and grey; white; dark and light shades of green-blue; and dark and light shades of pink. These tassels are attached to the cords with orange, light blue fibre, and/or dark red-brown fibre.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair Tie3097/66

Multicoloured fibre cord with a loop on the top and several tassels on the end. The loop has stripes of dark brown with brown-orange and light brown-yellow with grey. The cord is decorated with grey, brown-orange, dark brown, and light brown-yellow diamonds with white outlines. A grey and purple (mostly on the underside) tassel is attached to the cord with white fibre. Underneath this is a slightly larger light grey-brown tassel which is attached with orange-red fibre. Below the two tassels is a large tassel coloured in shades of red, which is connected to the cord with fibre of the same colour. The cord splits underneath the red tassel into three slightly thinner braided (?) cords of the same colours. Near the bottom of each cord are small tassels of different colours: the centre tassel is coloured in shades of pink; the others, in shades of green or yellow. Each of these three tassels is attached to the cords with light grey-brown and/or orange-red fibre.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coca Bag3097/36

Multicoloured woven coca bag with an open top, a long thin strap, and a fringe and multicoloured tassels at the bottom. Three tassels extend from the bottom of the bag, with the central tassel splitting in two, making the total number of tassels four. The bottom of each tassel has single colours of yarn: white, pink, green-blue, and yellow. The bag's design consists of stripes of varying thickness, dotted lines, and a diamond pattern in the centre. There are three whole diamonds, which are half white and half yellow, as well as six half-diamonds, which are also half pink and purple.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Macha, Potosi, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coca Bag3097/32

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.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3097/14

Colourful, patterned, woven wool shawl made up of two panels sewn together at the vertical centre with dark brown thread. The left panel is colourful and patterned with a 8 cm black band towards the seam, the innermost third of the right panel is a black ground and the outer two thirds are colourful and patterned. Both panels are patterned with vertical stripes and vertical bands containing zigzag, checkered, striped, and concentric circle patterns. The left panel fades from a wide purple band into the black band, while the right panel has a sharp divide between the patterned and black sections. The shawl is edged with orange stitching, the lower left corner is not edged.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivar, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3097/27

Dark brown and off-white knitted hat with earflaps and a tassel. The hat is a long cone-shaped cap and has dark brown patterns on an off-white ground. Patterned (top to bottom) with a dark brown band with off-white diamonds made of two triangles, human figures, animals, and wave motifs. The ear flaps are patterned with human figures, and a cow ? figure. The hat is edged with dark brown stitching. Each ear flap has a short dark brown and off-white braided string with a tassel at the end. The top of the hat has a tassel made of yarn.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre
Made in
La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat3097/25

Salmon coloured knitted hat with earflaps, patterned with geometric dark brown flowers. The cap of the hat narrows towards the top, with a smaller rounded top end. The pattern on the hat is made up of dark brown flowers on the salmon ground. The flowers are made up of eight drop-shaped petals with thin salmon lines separating them, coming together at the points. The cap is made of one woven piece, sewn together at a seam on the left side where the pattern does not line up. The edge of the cap has a dark brown line with checkers on the bottom. The earflaps are triangular with slightly rounded sides which narrow to a point where a blue woven tie is attached. The earflaps are patterned with a smaller salmon triangle outlined by two triangular dark brown and salmon bands, with a line with dashes across it inside each band. The left earflap is sewn onto the cap with bright pink thread and has a half green, half white pompom at the tip where the tie attaches. The right earflap is sewn on with orange thread.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3097/53

Multicoloured woven belt with two fibre cords on each end. The cords are loosely connected at the tip on one end, while they are separate on the other end. The belt's pattern extends to the end with the attached cords; while the end with separate cords consists of nine multicoloured woven fibre cords stitched together. The pattern consists of alternating rectangular sections of yellow geometric designs on a light red and grey background, and vice versa. The pattern is bordered above and below by alternating white and grey stripes, which are in turn bordered above and below by thicker alternating stripes of red and burgundy. The pattern and stripes are in the opposite order on the other side of the belt.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3097/50

Multicoloured woven belt decorated with a pattern consisting of geometric designs and animal figures. The border on the top and bottom alternates between red and green stripes. The pattern alternates between purple and pink designs on a white and yellow background and vice versa. The pattern extends to one end of the belt, while the other end is composed of multicoloured fibre cords stitched together.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt3097/49

Multicoloured woven belt with a geometric pattern. One end of the belt has five multicoloured woven cords of fibre with gaps between them attached to a short dark purple cord, while the other end has a long dark purple cord. The belt's design alternates between two black diamonds on an orange and white background and vice versa; opposite order on the other side of the belt. The pairs of diamonds are positioned where one is on top of the other. All the diamonds have small circles of the background colour in the centre.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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