Woman's hair tie

Collection type: Object
Description: Woman's hair tie
Long description: Woman's hair tie: a narrow band of fine complementary-warp weave in red and white, bordered with black. Various geometric patterns, mainly chevrons and diamonds. 4 further bands have been created at each end on intersecting transverse warps, giving 9 fringed units at each end of the hair tie. The extra bands are mainly in different complementary-warp patterns, all very fine; one is an oblique interlaced flat braid. The loose warps have been re-plied in large multicoloured groups for the fringe. Warp spin Z2S; fringe Z2SZ; weft Z2S; warp count 96 epi (38/cm); weft count 24 ppi (10/cm).
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Cuzco Dept
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 Braided
Dimensions: Length 1400 mm including tassels, Width 5 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.100 Other numbers: S2
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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