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Vest3627/3 c

Small cream-coloured vest with front opening; secured with two hook and eye closures. Wide band of green velvet trims the neck and front openings, and front and side bottom edges; trim is bordered with wavy red ribbons. Trim along front opening is embroidered with floral and heart motifs; done in red, pink, dark blue, white, and orange. Overtop hook and eye closures are dark blue stripes with fringe, which are decorated with painted buttons and curvilinear embroidery. Vest has two flap pockets on either side; right is functional, left is decorative. Interior is lined with plain fabric.

Culture
Czech
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, plastic, metal, paint and dye
Made in
Moravia, Czech Republic
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/4

A rectangular black cloth with a wide patterned band lengthwise across the lower half. The side and bottom edges of the cloth are hemmed in black and red, with a white zigzag stitch along the edge. The band has five horizontal rows, three of which are patterned with white thread and some red in the background, and two of which are black with two horizontal white lines through them. The top and bottom row have a double zigzag pattern. The rest of the row is patterned with diamond shapes. The middle row has a repeating diamond pattern, with smaller diamonds inside the larger ones. The top, middle, and bottom rows have a space in the pattern towards the right edge where the background colour is visible without pattern.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/3

A rectangular brown-black cloth with a wide patterned band lengthwise across the lower third. The band is made up of thick red and pink horizontal stripes and thin purple and green stripes. The pattern is a thin repeating vertical zigzag in tan. The zigzags have spirals on each outer point. There is a vertical band towards the left edge of the pattern where the zigzags stop and the tan fibre is woven straight across.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/2

A rectangular black cloth with a wide, colourful, patterned band lengthwise across the lower half. The side and bottom edges of the cloth are bordered in red, with green and pink dots along the edge. The band has three horizontal rows, each patterned with horse motifs in profile. The top and bottom row have a dark red background, and the middle row has a background of horizontal red, black, and green stripes. There are colourful patterned borders between the rows. All three rows begin (left-right) with two horses, the bottom four facing down and the top two facing up. All the rows have a space in the pattern where the background colour is visible without pattern. After the space, the horses in the top and bottom rows are alternately facing up and down the cloth in pairs, repeated across the textile. The middle row has a horizontal zigzag line with spirals on either side, bordered by another line. In the empty triangles made by the zigzag pattern, is a single horse motif facing away from the middle of the row. There are also alpaca(?) and dog(?) motifs in some triangular spaces along with the horse.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, synthetic dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3616/1

Quilled and beaded deerskin tobacco bag. The top is a long pouch of soft deerskin with clear and green beads stitched along the scalloped opening. Below the pouch is a two-sided rectangular panel of beadwork on a red fabric backing. On one side, the beadwork design has two side-by-side pink diamonds with dark blue crosses within, outlined in red, green and dark blue on a white background outlined with a single line of teal flanked by two lines of white beading. On the other side, the beadwork design is of a single pink diamond outlined in teal, red, mustard brown and dark blue on a white background outlined with a single line of teal flanked by two lines of white beading. The diamond has two angled extensions on each side in dark blue, mustard brown, red and teal. Below the beadwork panel is a section of quillwork, with strips of deerskin wrapped in quills dyed orange, red, and white. Below this extends long fringe of deerskin.

Culture
Dakota ?
Material
deer skin, porcupine quill, dye, cotton fibre ? and glass
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe3616/3 a-b

Catlinite pipe bowl (part a) with pewter/lead inlay and a quill work pipe stem (part b). The pipe bowl is black with inlaid grey and red designs on the bowl and the end of the shank with the mortise. The design closest to the opening of bowl has a curved upper edge and straight bottom edge, with repeating alternating black and red designs within. The next design has a zigzag upper edge and straight bottom edge. Last is a solid band. The shank is square on the mortise end, tapering in to a blunt end. The bowl is conical. The pipe stem is wooden and decorated with wrapped quill work of checkerboard pattern in bands of colour (red, black, blue, green, natural quill) alternating with natural quill. The quill work is stitched together along the long edge. On one end of the pipestem is a cylindrical tenon (that inserts into the mortise) and at the opposite end is the carved mouthpiece separated by a carved circle.

Culture
Plains ? or Eastern Woodlands ?
Material
cotton fibre, wood, catlinite stone, lead metal ?, porcupine quill and dye
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3612/7

Decorative embroidered mattress cover composed of a large cone-shaped red-brown fabric embroidered with large floral designs in circular patterns in red, grey-beige, orange, dark green, purple, and dark purple-blue. The rounded edge is unfinished. A v-shaped red fabric is attached to both straight edges and is embroidered with repeating square panels with geometric designs. The brown edging is decorated with zigzag decorative ribbon. The bottom edge is lined with long fringe in sections of dark brown, maroon, dark green, red, beige, dark purple-blue with white beads at the ends. The cone-shaped piece is backed by a piece of textile with a red and beige paisley pattern, the v-shaped section is backed with red fabric.

Culture
Afghan
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre ?, dye and glass ?
Made in
Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3612/5

Embroidered square textile. The central design is a large red embroidered X-shape composed of rhombus flowers on a light grey-beige background. Small embroidery framed circular mirrors are included around the designs as well as within the central square. The edge is bordered with repeating rhombus shapes in alternating directions creating a zigzag pattern, with small triangles filling the space. This zigzag band is separated from the central design by a band of yellow threads, bordered by black on each side, that are stitched in alternating in orange and green thread. The edge has a thin band of black. Reverse is backed with red fabric.

Culture
Afghan
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre ?, dye, glass and metal
Made in
Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3612/3

Quilted and embroidered square textile. Central design is a square, outlined with smaller squares that have embroidery-framed circular mirrors. The inner square has an overall light blue-green, burgundy and yellow-green on light brown colour scheme with more small circular mirrors embroidered within light blue-green flowers. This central square is framed by a wide border of various sized sections of red fabric embroidered with floral designs in black, green and yellow on one side, and pink, deep purple, green and yellow on the other side. Each section is edged with black threads. Finished with black edging, and a small black loop in one corner. Reverse is backed with maroon fabric over a layer of red fabric.

Culture
Baluchi
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre ?, dye, glass and metal
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Doll3612/10 a-e

Standing female doll (part a) wearing a red and white floral patterned dress. The dress is secured with a single snap fastener at the back of the neck. She wears long white pants under the dress with ornate floral ribbon around the hems. She wears a thin white veil (part b) with a head covering (part c) overtop which covers most of her torso at the front and extends to her ankles at the back. The head covering is blue with blue decorative embroidery on the front panel. Her black embroidery floss hair is braided and secured with an orange hair tie with a single pin holding it in place. She wears leather sandals (parts d-e) with silver metallic straps. Her eyes, eyebrows, mouth and nails are painted on and her nose and ears are sewn.

Culture
Afghan
Material
cotton fibre, skin, paint and metal
Made in
Kabul, Afghanistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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