AN ANDEAN BURGUNDY FIELD WOMEN’S SHOULDER COVER, ORURO – BOLIVIA - TS156

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$280.0
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Original
Culture
Native American
                                          

A BURGUNDY FIELD WOMEN’S SHOULDER COVER, ORURO – BOLIVIA

TS156

This offer consists of a hand-woven, warp-faced, hand-spun textile made in two pieces on a horizontal loom and joined in the center with synthetic fuchsia stitching. The local native name is Awayu (in Aymara), and the provenance is from the Pueblo Pampa Aullagas, Ladislao Cabrera Province, Department of Oruro, Plurinational State of Bolivia, at around 12,171 feet of high altitude.

The burgundy field is sheep wool dyed, and a lesser percent of black yarns were used too. The designed bands and the colorful stripes are sheep wool dye. There are stripes of reverse-spun yarns (lluq’i) on one of the lateral sides that were added to protect the wearer from malignant powers that are in the dark orange stripes. The hidden weft is sheep wool dye.

Late-20th Century.

48 ¼ inches by 43 ¾ inches.

925 grams (about 2.039 pounds)

42 warps; 13 wefts per inch.