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 a red and pink diamond pattern with a light blue weft. 3 further bands have been created at each end on intersecting transverse warps, giving 7 fringed units at each end of the hair tie. The extra bands have similar complementary-warp patterns, mainly in red and pink but also including other colours. The loose warps have been re-plied in multicoloured groups for the fringe. Warp spin Z2S; fringe Z2SZ; 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; 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
Dimensions: Length 1150 mm including tassels, Width 5 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.101 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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