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Chuspa sellano. Miyuyoc; Ca. 1950.

Chuspa sealano. Miyuyoc (Department. Humahuaca, Province of Jujuy); ca. 1950.

 

Exceptional piece of traditional Argentine textiles woven in hand-spun sheep's wool and dyed with natural dyes. Made on a backstrap loom with a 1/1 plain weave, warp face and floating weave, variable length floats (1,2,3,4). Roughly square in shape it is woven and then folded in half to form the container. Five plumes of "fringes" and pompoms adorn it and it has a strap decorated with two tubular braids ending in two pompoms. In the main body, the decorative script is formed with smooth strips of colors and five bands of different sizes; three of them with "hooks" or "sellano" and two others, thinner, with a succession of "S". Colors: purple, red, green, blue, pink and white. Measures. Container: 11.5 x 12.5 cm. Strap length: 80 cm.

 

It is a small bag to carry coca leaves made with a delicate fabric of kolla origin. Together with the belts, the chuspas constitute the most complex products of textile crafts in the most remote northwest of Argentina: Jujuy and Salta Puna, Quebrada de Humahuaca, and sub-Andean valleys of the Zenta and Santa Victoria mountain ranges.

It is of great interest to know the history of this piece, acquired from Petrona Velásquez in Tilcara (Department of Tilcara, Jujuy), in 1998.



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