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Coca pouch
Collezione Missioni Cattoliche Americane 1893 donazione
cultura Tiahuanaco
coca pouch
III-XIII - 201 - 1300
Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 54; Larghezza: 16
Perù
fibra camelide- tessitura a telaio
Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova/ Castello D'Albertis - 1972/1977<br>Le mani delle Americhe - Genova/ Laboratorio didattico S.Agostino - nov-gen 1995/96<br>Animali e piante dall'America all'Europa - Genova/ Museo di storia naturale - 1991-1992
Chuspa in warp-faced canvas with embroidery and decorative braids. The canvas is in brown camelid fiber with the selvages embroidered with tubular looping in camelid fiber in red, yellow, blue and brown. The faces of the bag are adorned with camelid fiber darning embroidery in red, yellow and blue to create lozenge motifs inscribed in squares. Braids made with the same fibers and colors as the darning embroidery adorn the lower corners of the bag. The shoulder strap is made of pink, yellow, brown camelid fiber yarn braided and knotted at the end. The textile is double-faced.