Small bag made from a complete textile folded in half and stitched up the weft selvages.

Collection type: Object
Description: Small bag made from a complete textile folded in half and stitched up the weft selvages.
Long description: Small bag made from a complete textile folded in half and stitched up the weft selvages. The terminal area is at the bottom. Woven in two and three colour complementary warp weave with a variety of geometric motifs. Three pattern bands are separated by plain brown warp stripes. No strap. Warp is probably mainly sheep's wool; weft is brown camelid fibre. Warp spin: Z2S; weft S2Z; warp count 64 epi; (26/cm) weft count 24 ppi (10/cm).
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Apurímac region Cotabambas Province
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, Material Wool Textile Animal, Process Woven, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Width 980 mm, Length 1100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.56 Other numbers: B24
Research and responses: For a list of the works consulted by Linda Mowat while cataloguing this collection, see RDF. [JC 26 8 2013]
Rowe (1977:83) illustrates a belt in this technique which she describes as follows: 'Stripes of complementary-warp weave with 3-span floats in alternating alignment (3/1 horizontal color [sic] change, diagonals in 2-span floats) and stripes of 3-colour complementary-warp weave with 3-span floats aligned in alternate pairs, with outlining and extra 3-span floats on the back.'

Search terms: Bag, Narcotic, Coca Accessory

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