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1997.2.103

Woman's hair tie

1997.2.103

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Collection type
Object
Description
Woman's hair tie
Long description
Woman's hair tie: a narrow band of fine complementary-warp weave in diamond pattern in red with a black border and pink weft. Further bands have been created at each end on intersecting transverse warps, giving fringed units at each end of the hair tie. The extra bands have various complementary-warp patterns in red, white, orange, pink, black and green. The loose warps are re-plied in multicoloured groups to form the fringe. Warp spin S2Z; fringe S2ZS; weft S2Z; 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 6 mm, Length 870 mm including tassels
Object numbers
Accession number: 1997.2.103 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]

Search terms: Textile, Ornament, Hair Ornament