Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton hammock on loom

Peruvian Kaxinawá cotton hammock on loom

Muxu Disiyabi (loom with hammock)

hammock, loom, Kaxinawá, Kensinger, Peru

A partially finished cotton hammock on loom that has been prepared for the weaving in of a design. Includes two balsa wood loom poles, two palm bark bobbins (one with dark blue and the other with white string), two slender cane stretcher poles, four palm bark pins, one flat palm bark weaving sword, and roughly 208 bamboo sticks woven through the warp. Colors include: white, dark blue, and purple.

Note on accession card:
"Has been laid out ready for weaving of a band of design"

loom pole lengths - 155 cm
width - 178 cm

Kaxinawá, Rio Curanja, Bidixu's wife A

c. 20th century

Kenneth Kensinger

textile, loom

Temple University Anthropology Lab

1966-1-128