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Coca bag (ch'uspa)
Date:
ca. 1900
Location:
de Young
Gallery 60A Drawer 9
Century:
Media:
Sheep's Wool Or Camelid Hair; Warp-faced Plain Weave; Complementary-warp Weave
Dimensions:
22.2 x 18.4 cm (8 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
South America
Culture/People:
Aymara
Accession Number:
1992.107.166
Acquisition Date:
1992-06-30
Credit Line:
The Jeffrey Appleby Andean Textile Collection
Exhibition History:
To Honor the Ancestors, 1997
Study Drawer Rotation, Textile Education Gallery, de Young, 12/16-present
Small bag, one piece, solid colored and patterned stripes, predominantly beige, red, and blue, joined at side seams and along the top edges with a tubular edge binding, 3 pockets, multicolored tassels creating fringe on bottom of bag and pockets; one other crude tassel. Fig. 58-59, p. 57, Traditional Textiles of the Andes/Catalogue 339, p. 71.
