Textile Item Number: 1067/14 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The textile is striped with shades of brown. The stripes alternate between off-white, light brown, off-white and dark brown. All lines are outlined in dark blue. One of the edges is 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.