Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/40 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Panel fragment from a mantle or shroud. Light brown and rectangular in shape. Alternating diagonal bands, done in light and dark brown, across entire surface. Wide diagonal bands have standing bird motifs, thinner dividing lines between the bands have wave designs. Wide light brown border along bottom edge with large wave pattern. Designs done in dark brown. Dots in between the wave crests. Border trimmed on either side by two plain dark brown lines.
Collected in Peru before the 1970s by Ina VanStan, a Professor of Textiles and Clothing at the Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) from the 1940s to c. 1966. VanStan later gifted her collection to the donor. A large amount of the donation was used for teaching at the University of Alberta while others were mainly small study fragments.
Done in an alternating float weave, turned.