Fragment: Textile

Item number 2990/904 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Triangular piece of thick textile. Design shows male in profile, holding a long stick with both hands at the lower right corner. The same male design is present at the front in an eight-sided figure which is surrounded by geometrical protrusions. Protruding geometrical borders are forming stepped designs in red-brown and in yellow-brown on a brown ground. Red-brown, yellow-brown, cream, blue and brown dyed wool. Worn and incomplete.

Specific Techniques

Design formed by weaving colored weft threads in an open tapestry technique, where some sections of the warp are left unwoven to give a semi-translucent effect.