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 variety of diamond and chevron patterns in red and pink with a green border and brown weft. Further bands have been created at each end on intersecting transverse warps, giving numerous fringed units at each end of the hair tie. The extra bands have various complementary-warp patterns, but are very short and rely mostly on their multicoloured re-plied fringes for effect. Warp spin Z2S; fringe Z2SZ; weft Z2S; warp count 112 epi (45/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: Width 4 mm, Length 890 mm including tassels
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.102 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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