Piece of male attire from the pre-colonial period, with designs of strips and figures of rectangular form, folded on itself and joined at the sides to form a bag, having a cord fastened to teh seams that allowed it to hang. It can be of everyday use, to carry personal objects or used ritually to carry coca leaves.
Small bag, of everyday use, made out of camelid wool with flat or combing techniques and generally used to hold different items or to keep food, like toasted grains.
Abstract geometrical motif organised in a repetitive manner, in the form of a strip that flanks a band with motifs or the edge of the piece of cloth. It can be found in warp faced archaeological and ethnographic textiles elaborated with the double cloth technique. This is the most appropriate term for the double cloth border instead of 'stripe' that implies the use of a plain technique.
Abstract geometrical motif organised in a repetitive manner, in the form of a band that flanks a band with motifs or the edge of the piece of tapestry cloth. It is found principally in archaeological warp faced textiles. This term is more appropriate for the border of a cloth than 'stripe' which is generally applied to warp face.
In the region comprising the ayllus of the south of Oruro and north of Potosi in Bolivia, item of men's clothing made by men out of fine wool on a foot-loom, measuring approximately 2 metres in length and 20 cm wide; used more as a sash, or stomach band than as a scarf in itself. There are two types of scarf: the festive one tends to have multi-coloured bands and squares, has various extended elements, such as fringes, tassels, tongues and other ornaments; the war scarf has a design in the form of a chessboard, is black and white and is used in 'tinkus' or ritual battles, and in this context it is said that its fringe extensions finished in tassels express the appetite for the blood of the enemy.
