Patterned woven wool shawl with vertical coloured stripes and wider bands on a black ground. The shawl is made up of two panels sewn together at the vertical centre with dark brown thread. The centre of the shawl along the seam is a wide band of black ground, with solid stripes across the outer sections. The stripes are pink, purple, yellow, brown, and white, with orange stripes only on the left side of the shawl. The wide bands are patterned with wide zigzags or chevrons with concentric circle patterns inside. The right edge is patterned with checkers and the left edge with triangles. The edging is tubular and pink, patterned with yellow and blue lines.

• History Of Use

  Worn by women as a shawl (ahuayo; mantle).

• Specific Techniques

  Incomplete tubular edge, complementary warp in double-weave, ancient stitch joining the halves. Natural dyes with a small quantity of hot pink analine dye.

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• Type of Item shawl
• Culture Quechua, Aymara
• Material alpaca wool fibre, dye, aniline dye
• Measurements height 84.8 cm, width 132.1 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Joanna Staniszkis
• Received from Joanna Staniszkis

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• Made in Bolivar

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• Creation Date between 1850 and 1899
• Collection Date during 1978
• Ownership Date before February 5, 2015
• Acquisition Date on February 5, 2015

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• Item Classes textiles
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3097/0015