Fringe made of brown and yellow-brown camelid wool, forming a braid and slightly knotted at one side. Incomplete.

Gift of Carolyn Schnurer

Gift of Dr. Werner Muensterberger

Square camelid wool textile made of two smaller, rectangular pieces hand sewn together. The design consists of various shades of brown in stripes interspersed with those of cream and dark grey.

Poncho made of warp faced stripes hand-woven in vertical bands of natural beige and brown cameloid yarns, which are highly twisted, with four bands of green at each side. The edges and neck are finished with a strip of woven fabric that has two bands of green.

Stone thrower sling. Ends braided of black and brown wool; one end looped. Central panel composed of parallel woven segments; one of four black ribs and one of four grey ribs, joined at either end to braid ribs.

Wasa watana (hair tie). A braided hair tie made in the combined techniques of oblique interlacing (brown threads) and oblique twining (white and red). One end of the hair tie has a tassel made of 3 bands (1 intersecting warp), but the main band just above the other tassel is broken and sewn back together. The other end of the hair tie has a tassel made of 4 bands (1 intersecting warp and one sewn on band).

Longish, narrow moneybag (monedera, Spanish; pachaq chaki, Quechua) pouch that is unfinished (lacks side seams and fringes).

A dance sling (wichi wichi) consisting of a main braid with tassels at one end and five secondary braids with tassels that are attached to the main braid; all are solid braids. The pattern of diamonds on the solid braid is called “amapolas”, which is the name for a poppy that grows on the banks of rivers. The larger braid terminates at a small vestigial cradle, and a small solid braid with chevrons extends from the other side of the cradle.

A dance sling (wichi wichi) consisting of a main braid and two secondary braids with tassels; all are solid braids. The pattern of black and white diagonal lines on the main cord occasionally reverses direction. A solid braid with a four-colour pattern is added to one end. The secondary braids have different patterns, one of which is called “amapolas”, which is the name of a poppy that grows on the banks of rivers (white, grey and brown).