Belt

Collection type: Object
Description: Belt
Long description: Belt in white warp-faced plain weave with supplementary warp patterns in green, red, black and pink, divided by narrow plain warp stripes in pink, black, red and yellow. Wide variety of geometric motifs as well as anthropomorphic and bird figures. Red tubular edging on both selvages. The weft is brown. At one end 10 oblique interlaced units are stitched together and a length of beige yarn is attached for fastening the belt; at the other end a length of thick red yarn secures the warp loops. Probably sheep's wool and camelid fibre. Chemical dyes. Warp spin Z2S; supplementeary warp Z2S; weft Z2S; warp count 88 epi (35/cm); weft count 15 ppi (7/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, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Length x Width 1660 x 82 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.2.104 Other numbers: B6
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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