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| Type of Object: | Clothing |
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| Materials: | Sheep fiber, natural dyes |
| Measurements: | Average size is one square meter. |
| Date or Period: | Republican (1825-1900) |
| Maker: | Uru Chipaya |
| Designated List Section: | IV A Colonial and Republican Textiles -- Indigenous Highland Traditions |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 12/07/01 |
| Photograph: | National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) |
| Copyright: | National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Square or rectangular garment composed of two pieces of cloth sewn together. May be dyed with natural or synthetic dyes in all colors. Plain or striped. Often woven from alpaca or other camelid fibers. Designs are typically stripes arranged across the cloth in a vertical or horizontal pattern, or confined to the margins of one side of the garment. Average size is one square meter. This mantle is made out of two pieces with plain texture, in dark brown color with white stripes on the edges. It is tubular with the upper middle seam opened. The edge stripes have thread twisted in a Z. Size is 129 cm. x 162 cm. | |
| Keywords: | |
| shawl, stripes, textile, Uru Chipaya, |
