Catalog Number |
CAS 0514-0069 | |
Category | Textiles | |
Object Name | Shawl | |
Culture | Aymara | |
Global Region | South America | |
Country | Peru | |
State/Prov./Dist. | Puno, Puno Province | |
County | ||
Other Geographic Data | Town: Puno | |
Maker's Name | Marangani Mills | |
Date of Manufacture | ||
Collection Name | N/A | |
Materials | Warp and weft: wool | |
Description | Commercially woven rectangular woman’s shawl woven entirely in plainweave with deep green warps and wefts, with evenly spaced floating black warps and wefts inserted at regular intervals and woven 4/1 to produce a window pane effect of open black squares on one face; At each edge, the warp ends and weft ends are twisted together to form fringes; This shawl was woven at the Marangani Mills which is widely known throughout southern Peru; At the time this was collected, this type of shawl was increasingly popular as part of the “urbanized Indian” costume; Label sewn into one corner reads, “COOP> MANUFACTURAS DELCENTRO IND. PERUANA HUANCATEX.” | |
Dimensions (cm) | Width = 163.5, Length = 216.0 |