Textile Item Number: 1067/6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The woven textile is irregularly shaped with a striped pattern. The stripes are white, red, yellow, brown and all separated by dark blue stripes in varying widths. The blue warp threads are visible creating a subtle checkered appearance with the stripes.

Narrative

Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.