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1997.2.14

Woman's rectangular shawl

1997.2.14

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Collection type
Object
Description
Woman's rectangular shawl
Long description
Woman's rectangular shawl made from two complete four-selvage textiles of unequal size, stitched together edge to edge. Dark brown warp faced plain weave with broad central band and borders of three-colour complementary-warp patterning outlined by plain warp stripes. Warps of central band include backward-spun (lluq'i) yarn. Motifs include the Peruvian flag with llama and the word 'REPUBLICA'; also birds and the hexagonal 'six lands' symbol often found on Taquile textiles (Fini 1985:28, 32). All natural colours apart from a few narrow pinkish warp stripes. Probably alpaca. Warp spin Z2S, S2Z; weft Z2S; warp count 36 epi (14/cm); weft count 10 ppi (4/cm).
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Puno Dept
Cultural groups
Quechua
Aimara
Person
Field collector Robin Woodhouse
PRM source Robin Woodhouse
PRM source Paula Woodhouse
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1975
Date collected
1974 - 1975
Acquisition information
Donated: 1996
Materials and processes
Material Alpaca Wool Camelid Textile Animal, Process Woven
Dimensions
Length x Width 750 x 810 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1997.2.14 Other numbers: L10
Research and responses

For a list of the works consulted by Linda Mowat while cataloguing this collection, see RDF. [JC 26 8 2013]

Search terms: Clothing, Shawl

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