Textile Item Number: 1067/3 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The woven textile is striped with shades of brown and blue. The thin stripes alternate between dark brown, light blue, light brown and light blue again. All the lines are outlined in dark blue. None of the edges are finished.

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.