• Results (889)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Belt3097/47

Multicoloured woven belt with fibre cords on each end. One end has two green cords (one long, one short) while the other end has a long orange cord, attached to the belt with purple fibre. The latter end is composed of ten woven cords of fibre that are stitched together. The belt is decorated with various animal figures resembling birds and quadrupeds. In between the animal figures are three vehicles resembling buses. On one side of the belt, these designs are embroidered in black and pink or yellow and grey on a white background; vice versa on the other side.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivar, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Belt3097/46

Multicoloured woven belt with abstract, geometric, and foliage designs. Near one end of the belt are five multicoloured woven cords of fibre with gaps between them. Three orange and white cords extend from the other end of the belt, uniting to form one long cord. The belt has 14 alternating dark green and white sections, with a yellow horizontal line running through. The white sections are decorated with dark green embroidery and vice versa. The central five sections and the section next to the end with five cords have foliage patterns. Another section appears to depict two bird-like animal figures. The remaining sections have geometric or abstract designs.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivar, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Coca Bag3097/34

Multicoloured woven coca bag with a long thin woven strap, an open top, and a small flap on the front. The bag is made of two woven panels sewn together to form the front and back of the bag. The strap is woven in beige and red and sewn into the inside seams of the bag. The front panel has a beige background with lines of burgundy, pink, neon orange, and neon yellow abstract designs in the centre. These designs are also on the flap, which is located in the top centre of the bag. The bottom edge of the flap consists of loops of wrapped threads in shades of dark blue, red, pink, white, and yellow with tubular wrapped strings with a ball at each end on the bottom corners. The left and right borders on the flap are hot pink. On either side of the central designs are large vertical zigzags surrounded by small horse-like figures, all in red. There is a vertical line of pink abstract designs running through each zig zag, as well as a line of neon yellow and pink abstract designs bordering both sides of the central design. The back panel has a beige background with many vertical and horizontal lines in shades of red, pink, neon yellow, dark green, and neon orange. The left and right borders on both panels are neon orange, dark green, and yellow. The bottom edge of the bag is made up of loops of wrapped threads in shades of pink, white, yellow, orange, red, dark blue, and dark green with a wrapped thread ball at each corner and one in the centre. Each ball has two tubular wrapped strings with a ball at each end.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Belt3097/57

Short multicoloured belt with wrapped tassels at each end. Each end has a red, orange, yellow, and white pompom from which three wrapped tassels extend. Slightly smaller pompoms are at the bottom of these tassels: the outer two are the same colour as the larger pompoms, while the central smaller pompoms are gradients of either dark green to light green to white or magenta to pink to white. Shorter and slightly thinner wrapped tassels extend down from these smaller pompoms, each has three small circles of fibre wrapped around the bottom. Below these fibre circles are small metal discs, attached to the bottom of the shorter tassels. The belt's design consists of a large zigzag surrounded by smaller lines, diamonds, triangles, and spirals. On the front side of the belt, the designs are coloured in horizontal stripes of dark green, light orange, and purple while the background is cream-coloured; opposite on the back side of the belt. On both sides, the top and bottom of the belt are bordered with thin pink lines.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre, dye and metal
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Hair Tie3097/58

Fibre hair tie composed of a long plaited cord with tassels. Four tassels are in the centre, each consisting of five fibre pom poms. Both ends of the tie have pom poms, which connect to two tassels. On one end, each tassel has four pom poms; on the other end, one tassel has four, while the other has only one large pom pom.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Bag3097/44

Unfinished bag: one panel with tassels on each corner. The panel is decorated with a multicoloured geometric pattern in the centre, surrounded on the left and right with multicoloured stripes. On each of the four corners are long sections of fibre (secured at the top and loose at the bottom) from which tassels emerge. There are additional long sections of fibre at the middle and end points of each tassel.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Bag3097/43

Multicoloured woven coca bag with an open top, a thin strap, a flap in the centre, and many tassels. Each tassel has two or more pompoms on it. There are two tassels on each upper corner of the bag, below the strap. Three tassels are extending downward from the flap in the centre of the bag. On the bottom of the bag, there are five tassels, three of which are split in two, making a total of eight tassels on the bottom. The bag is decorated with lines, geometric shapes, and small abstract designs. The strap is decorated with a swirled pattern.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Carrying Cloth3097/10

Rectangular brown cloth with wide patterned bands along the vertical edges. The brown ground has a seam down the centre where the two halves were stitched together with dark brown string. The edging of the cloth is rounded with a pink and white diamond pattern, stitched on with dark brown thread. The patterned bands along the edges are made up of dark red stripes separating three bands containing figures of birds. The bands on the left are black and purple, those on the right are red and pink.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Potolo, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Hair Tie3097/62

Fibre hair tie composed of a thin black (and partially green and thicker) cord with several multicoloured fibre pom poms and wrapped tassels on either end. Each end has dark red-brown fibre pom poms with multicoloured undersides, from which extend two multicoloured wrapped tassels. Each tassel has a black pom pom with a multicoloured underside, from which extend two more multicoloured wrapped tassels that end with black pom poms, with multicoloured undersides. Each end has a total of six wrapped tassels and seven pom poms.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Hair Tie3097/61

Fibre hair tie composed of a thin orange and grey-green cord with several multicoloured wrapped tassels on either end. Each end has a dark brown pom pom, from which extend four black and dark yellow-brown wrapped tassels. Each tassel has a dark brown fibre pom pom at the bottom, from which extend two long black and light brown wrapped tassels. These tassels have small multicoloured sections 3/4 of the way down and at the bottom. Below the multicoloured sections at the bottom of the tassels are dark brown fibre pom poms, from which extend one or two short multicoloured wrapped tassels (one pom pom has no tassels). One end has a total of 25 tassels and 13 pom poms, while the other end has 26 tassels and 13 pom poms.

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