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Fragment: Garment3263/36 a-d

Four irregularly shaped fragments from a garment. Dark red background with hexagon designs across all fragments. Hexagons alternate between brown-grey with golden brown interiors and golden brown with dark red interiors. All have snake-like faces inside of them. Golden brown hexagons have brown-grey snakes inside them, brown-grey hexagons have golden brown snakes. In the negative space, between the hexagons, are golden brown bird figures. Birds have brown-grey eyes outlined in red. Largest fragment (part a) has two complete hexagons and outlines of three hexagons along the right side. Second largest fragment (part b) has one complete hexagon and the outlines of two hexagons along the top and bottom edges. Third fragment (part c) contains half of a hexagon and part of the dark red background. Smallest fragment (part d) is a portion of the dark red background with golden brown bird figures. Outlines of three hexagons along the top and bottom edges.

Culture
Chancay
Material
cotton fibre, camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Cloth3263/5

Fragment of a woman's two-panel head cloth. Textile is irregularly shaped and dyed dark blue-grey. Done in dense gauze weave, shaped like diamonds. Plain horizontal line through centre, marking the two panels. Fragment is stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

Culture
Chancay
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Cloth3263/43 a-c

Three fragments from a four-part cloth. Two fragments are from the same section of the cloth (parts a and b). The largest fragment (part a) is irregular in shape and the second largest fragment (part b) is triangular in shape. Both are white with dark yellow zigzag designs across their surfaces. Dark blue geometric patterns spread throughout the dark yellow designs. Part a has an "H"-like shape in the centre, with dark blue and olive green geometric designs inside it. A thin rectangle, towards the bottom edge and close to the left side, of part b has similar olive green and dark blue designs inside it. The smallest fragment (part c) is rectangular in shape and light brown. It has geometric and curvilinear motifs, done in maroon and outlined in dark green, across its entire surface. Wavy line border, along top edge of part c, done in maroon.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, camelid wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Band3263/19

Fragment of a band. Rectangular in shape with wave designs, in diagonal rows, across entire surface. Background is black and waves are golden brown, done in geometric style. Golden brown lines, trimmed in black, along left and right edges. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

Culture
Chancay
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Border3263/29

Fragment of a curved border band. Semi-circular band divided into two rows. Top row is incompletely woven and white. Large yellow feathers, with white shafts, throughout white row. Feather designs move slightly into bottom row. Feather barbs that extend into the bottom row are dark brown. Bottom row is pink with dark brown flying birds, facing right side of band. Birds have yellow heads, pink eyes and heart-like shapes on their backs. Hearts done in yellow and pink. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

Culture
Chancay
Material
dye, cotton fibre and camelid wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Textile3263/10

Irregularly shaped woven fragment with numerous triangles extending from all edges. Textile background is white, darkening to brown towards the bottom edge. Interlocked, zigzagging stepped pattern across entire surface. Done in light blue-green, darkening to dark green-blue towards the bottom edge. Small vertical rectangles throughout main design. Horizontal hourglass-like shape in centre of main design. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

Culture
Andes
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Cloth3263/20

Fragment of a cloth. Textile is white-brown and square-like in shape. Top edge is uneven. Designs of geometric steps beginning at the bottom edge and going towards the upper portion of the cloth. Steps done in golden brown, light brown, dark red and pink. Fragment is stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

Culture
Chancay
Material
dye, cotton fibre and camelid wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Tunic3263/21

Fragment of a garment. Textile is olive green and rectangular in shape. Has a vertical stripe pattern across surface. Three thin stripes in the centre of the pattern. All are trimmed with dark blue and have alternating white and maroon rectangular outlines inside them, towards the top edge. Bottom portion of the thin stripes have alternating maroon and white triangles. The central three stripes are flanked on either side by wide dark blue stripes with mirrored human-like figures and ovals inside them. Designs done in white and golden brown. Right side of textile is maroon. Fragment is stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

Culture
Andes
Material
dye and camelid wool fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Sling3263/48 a-b

Two fragments of a brown sling. Largest fragment (part a) consists of the left half of the cradle and a small section of the handle. Smaller fragment (part b) is a portion of the right half of the cradle. Cradle, on both parts, has a repeating design of zoomorphic figures on a plain background, outlined in black. Figures done in geometric style and have two legs, angular heads and angular tails(?). Eyes are oval shaped and dark turquoise. Figures and backgrounds alternate between brown-red and brown-grey. Tapering section on left side of part a is brown-red with intermittent black stripes. Extends into brown-red handle, with plant fibre(?) interior, with concentric black diamond pattern. Right side of part b bordered with thin black stripes.

Culture
Andes
Material
cotton fibre, camelid wool fibre, plant fibre and dye
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cotton Ball3263/87

Mass of unprocessed cotton bolls. Majority are brown and red-brown; the remaining are natural white. Stems and seeds are caught throughout cotton.

Culture
Andes
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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