Small cloth, of the type used to hold coca leaves or food

Collection type: Object
Description: Small cloth, of the type used to hold coca leaves or food
Long description: Small cloth, of the type used to hold coca leaves or food; used in ritual offerings to the earth or other deities (Meisch 1997:144). A single complete four-selvage textile. Ground is warp-faced plain weave with warps in natural grey and shades of red and pink, giving a flecked effect. There are 7 bands of complementary warp and derived float weave decoration, flanked by plain warp stripes. The weft is grey. Possibly natural dyes. Old specimen in poor condition. Warp spin Z2S; weft Z2S; warp count 72 epi (29/cm); weft count 19 ppi (8/cm).
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Puno Dept Lake Titicaca Taquile Island
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 Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Length x Width 400 x 500 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.73 Other numbers: C8
Research and responses: For a list of the works consulted by Linda Mowat while cataloguing this collection, see RDF. [JC 26 8 2013]

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