Textile Item Number: 1067/17 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
The brown and off-white woven textile has four panels featuring a beaver-like creature. Each panel is filled by a beaver-like creature with a tall tail, large teeth, one arm raised and one arm out-stretched. The panel is otherwise decorated with triangles, crosses, dots and many stitches inside boxes. Two panels adjacent are mirror images of one another. In the same way, the lower panels are mirror images of the two upper panels. Above the panels there are two smaller, separated squares with partial designs.
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.
Item History
- Made in Peru
- Owned by Rosita LeSueur Tovell before November 28, 1985
- Received from Rosita LeSueur Tovell (Donor) on November 28, 1985
What
- Name
- Textile
- Identification Number
- 1067/17
- Type of Item
- textile
- Material
- cotton fibre, dye and wool fibre
- Overall
- height 33.5 cm, width 20.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Wari
- Previous Owner
- Rosita LeSueur Tovell
- Received from
- Rosita LeSueur Tovell (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Ownership Date
- before November 28, 1985
- Acquisition Date
- on November 28, 1985
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 89
- Accession Number
- 1067/0017