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A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave, and plain weave with paired warps and supplementary patterning warps; applied tubular crossed-warp edging in complex bird's eye; attached cotton and wool (camelid), crossed-warp strap.

Coca Bag (Chuspa)

Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Quechua or Aymara Possibly Ayaviri, Puno, Peru

Peru

Cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave, and plain weave with paired warps and supplementary patterning warps; applied tubular crossed-warp edging in complex bird's eye; attached cotton and wool (camelid), crossed-warp strap

Textiles

Latin American