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1933.75.9

Woven bag for holding coca leaves [SM (Verve) 23/5/2016]

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1933.75.9

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Collection type
Object
Description
Woven bag for holding coca leaves [SM (Verve) 23/5/2016]
Long description
Woven bag with plain cotton single warp and weft back. The front also has cotton warp and wefts, and has a supplementary weft pattern of bands red, blue and black camelid wool and diamond shapes made from the visible warp. On one side of the opening the bag has lengths of the woollen and cotton yarn knotted on one side of the opening. The wool is bound around the cotton yarn, but lower down is now frayed. The other side has a single length of twisted cotton yarn. The two sides of the bag (front and back) are stitched together up the sides using twisted cotton yarn. The stitches are visible on both sides of the bag. [SM (Verve) 23/5/2016]
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Unknown
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Date made: 1000-1476?, uncertain Archaeological period: Inka Inca, uncertain
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Supplementary Weft Woven, Process Knotted, Process Twisted, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Length: max 160 mm, Width: max 170 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.9
Research and responses

Note by Dr. Junius Bird, July 1950: `Single face weft pattern. Shaped in the loom. Pattern yarns supplementary to the cotton weft. Possibly from the South Coast, prior to Inca control.' Warp-faced cotton plain weave with single warps and wefts (Z-spun, S-plied). On one face of bag supplementary weft pattern in red, blue and black camelid fibre (Z-spun, S-plied). 4 selvages present. Lengths of plied cotton cord partly bound with camelid fibre yarns at top edge. LM.

Search terms: Bag, Narcotic, Coca Accessory