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BandAa28

Circular band of brass wire coiled around a wire core.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
brass metal
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BandAa27

Circular band of brass wire coiled around a wire core.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
brass metal and metal
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceAa26

Four strands of brown reeds alternating with glass trade beads of white, black, orange, yellow, green, red, and blue strung onto synthetic twine. Large wooden bead of unusual design central piece.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
grass, glass, leather skin and synthetic fibre
Made in
Okavango Swamps, Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileSa195

Textile made from three widths of red material with yellow and white stripes, and the three pieces are sewn together lengthwise with an uneven fringe at one end. One face is embellished with geometric multicoloured patterns except for an undecorated plain red square at the centre.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
acrylic fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtSa194

Skirt, child's, dyed indigo blue. The raw edges are sewn together to form a tube.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
cotton fibre and indigo dye
Made in
Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlouseSa193

Shirt made of woven fabric with multicoloured vertical bands on red. The front bottom edge is unfinished, and the back bottom edge is fringed. The sides are sewn partway up leaving arm holes. Multi-coloured embroidered edging at the neck. Slit with blue running stitch and cerise string ties, part way down the front. The back has small diamond-shaped embroidered areas in pink and yellow.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
cotton fibre, synthetic dye and acrylic fibre ?
Made in
Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SashSa161

Red sash has three bands of yellow, purple, blue and orange stripes in varying sequences. Of the looped fringes on each end, only one has a small loosely woven section all across, toward its outer edge.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PantsSa156

Pants (boy's) with red vertical stripes and pink horizontal stripes forming an open plaid on a white ground. Brocaded multicoloured horizontal bands of squares, chevrons and strings of human figures holding hands, alternate between the red crosswise stripes. The pant legs are slightly different lengths and are fringed at the cuffs.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
cotton fibre, acrylic fibre and dye
Made in
Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SashSa155

Boy's sash with four rows of indigo warp stripes grouped in pairs on a red ground. Both ends are fringed.

Culture
Cakchiquel
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fire StickAa80 a-b

A smooth, light brown stick blackened at the thicker end (part a). One end is slightly tapered, the other, rounded. The base is a roughly carved dark brown stick (part b), stripped and flattened in the centre, with a round blackened hole.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
wood
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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