Fragment: Sling Item Number: 3263/69 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a sling. Cradle and handles all trimmed in dark brown-black. Cradle is dark yellow-brown with an inner dark brown-black border. Inside of the border there is a plain line through the middle and has alternating brown and red triangles on either side of the line. Split in middle of cradle. Triangle pattern extends into handles. End of right handle is missing. Left handle extends into tightly woven brown-black braid.
Cradle is weft-faced. Borders are worked into the wrapping over a spiralling foundation element. Handles closest to the cradle made with same technique.
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.