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Altar Cloth2946/44

Small woven altar cloth. Red with dark red, pink, yellow, green and purple narrow bands. Square with vertical stripes in various patterns and widths. Left and right side are decorated with a green line flanked by pink and purple stripes. The think line down the centre alternates between purple and pink squares.

Culture
Aymara ?
Material
wool fibre
Made in
Pomata, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Altar Cloth2946/37

Small woven altar cloth. Light brown with red, purple, green, gray and blue bands. Rectangular with two sets of mirror image multi-coloured stripes. The centre stripe in each grouping is a narrow green and yellow column surrounded on both sides by a thick red and brown checked stripe. There is a pink, blue and white zigzag pattern around all four edges.

Culture
Aymara
Material
wool fibre
Made in
Pomata, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2947/5

Large brown tapa cloth decorated with geometric designs in black and light brown. The linear designs create four chevron-like patterns bisected by a column of circles. These circles alternate between pairs of black and medium brown dots. The cloth is organized into five rows of two long rectangles. All four sides are bordered by a black line. Two sides have an addition border of alternating black and medium brown triangles against a light brown base. The vertical line at the cloth’s centre is framed on both sides by the same triangular pattern.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark and pigment
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2902/53

Rectangular cloth with two rectangles of geometric batiked design. Separating the two batiked sections is a band of pink applique with blue and white diamonds. Batiked sections are accented with pink embroidery and pink, white, and green diamond appliques. Edges are bordered with purple band and pink band with white flower motif. Top of cloth has band of light blue fabric. Back is lined with greenish brown fabric.

Culture
Hmong ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2902/49

Rectangular red cloth with smaller rectangle sewn to top. Used for carrying babies. Larger rectangle has blue applique with batiked geometric pattern underneath red zigzag appliques, surrounded by red border with white and black diamonds. Smaller rectangle has same diamond border, but in pink. In centre is applique with two large pink diamonds and geometric patterns. Reverse side of cloth is black.

Culture
Hmong
Material
fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2902/52

Rectangular cloth with two rectangles of geometric batiked design. Separating the two batiked sections is a band of white and blue applique. Bottom rectangle has red applique border with white and black diamond pattern. Batiked sections are accented with pink embroidery and red, white, and black diamond appliqués. Edges are bordered with blue band and purple band with flower motif. Top of cloth has band of dark blue fabric. Back is lined with same dark blue fabric. A paper card with a flower motif on the front is attached to the top right corner.

Culture
Hmong ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2902/51

Rectangular cloth with two rectangles of geometric batiked design and pink, blue, and greenish brown border. Separating the two batiked sections is a band of pink appliqued fabric with white, blue, and yellow diamonds. Batiked sections are accented with pink embroidery and pink, yellow, white and blue diamond appliques. Top of cloth has band of blue fabric. Back is lined with faded light brown fabric. A paper tag with flower motif on the front is attached to one corner.

Culture
Hmong ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2902/50

Rectangular cloth with geometric batiked design and red and blue border. Batiked section is accented with pink embroidery and red, white and blue diamond appliques. Top of cloth has band of blue fabric. Back is lined with same blue fabric. There is a paper tag with flower motif on the front attached to the top corner.

Culture
Hmong ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2902/48

Rectangular pink cloth with smaller rectangle sewn to top. Used for carrying babies. Larger rectangle has blue applique with batiked geometric pattern underneath pink zigzag appliques, surrounded by a pink, white, and green striped border. Smaller rectangle has same striped border and eight squares with geometric embroidery. Reverse side of cloth is blue with light brown dots and semi-circles, and pink border. There is a rectangular dark blue patch on the reverse side on the smaller rectangle. A paper tag with flower motif is attached to one corner.

Culture
Hmong
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2906/1

Large rectangular tapa cloth. The base colour of the cloth is stained a medium brown, with unpainted strips of light brown on either end. The cloth is painted with a dark brown, possibly oil based, pigment in squares with repeating patterns of birds, animals, outdoors scenes with a house, tree, sun, moon and star, a Tongan shield motif, and a central panel with triangles, lines, and lettering. At each end is a light brown strip with a bird and number in each square; 18 to 21 at one end, 19 to 22 at the other end.

Culture
Tongan
Material
paper mulberry bark, pigment and paint
Made in
Tonga
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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