Belt, woven on a body tension loom

Collection type: Object
Description: Belt, woven on a body tension loom
Long description: Belt, woven on a body tension loom (illustrations of such belts being woven in Fini 1985:19, Davies & Fini 1994:76). Worn by both men and women Ground of red warp-faced plain weave with bands of two-colour complementary-warp patterning in red, white and green, outlined by narrow warp stripes. Symbols include musok huata kallary (the new month), a hexagonal design representing the six regions of Taquile (Fini 1985:32), birds and horses. The weft is red. At one end are 12 oblique interlaced units, their ends tied together; there is a yarn tie at each end of the belt. Commercial yarn. Synthetic dyes. Warp spin Z2S; weft Z2S; warp count 96 epi (38/cm); weft count 32 ppi (13/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 Wool Textile Animal, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length x Width 1080 x 73 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.86 Other numbers: D15
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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