Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/8 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a woman's head cloth panel. Textile is square-like and cream coloured. Geometric wave pattern, done in dense gauze weave, across entire surface. Loose gauze weave throughout the negative space. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Done in gauze weave. 1/1 gauze weave in vertical alignment with second, knotted weft. Has added embroidery.
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.