1997.2.49

Collection type

Object

Description

Woman's rectangular shawl

Long description

Woman's rectangular shawl, made from two complete textiles stitched together edge to edge, with their terminal areas at opposite ends of the garment. Each textile has a central ground in warp-faced plain weave, with alternate groups of Z2S and S2Z spun warps in different shades of dark brown, giving a subtle striped herringbone effect. The ground of each piece is bordered with two broad bands of complementary warp decoration: diamond motifs (which may represent the sun, Inti (Flores Ochoa & Fries 1989:76-77); described by donor as qocha pallay ) in pink, mauve, red, brown, grey-green and white. The outer borders of the shawl are in warp-faced plain weave, again with alternate groups of Z2S and S2Z spun warps, in shades of red. The warp is probably sheep's wool, the dark brown weft probably camelid. The two halves of the shawl are sewn together with a zigzag stitch in sections of red, yellow, pink, mauve and black. Tubular edging in red and white borders all four sides. Warp spin: Z2S, S2Z; weft: Z2S; warp count 56 epi (22/cm); weft count 20 ppi (8/cm).

Geographical reference

Peru

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru

Cuzco Dept Q'ero

Cultural groups

Quechua

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, Process Stitched, Process Repaired (local)

Dimensions

Length: max 695 mm, Width: max 645 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1997.2.49 Other numbers: L6

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