Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/16 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a tab. Rectangular in shape and coloured golden brown. Pattern of repeating concentric diamonds across entire surface. Large diamonds are dark purple-red with inner diamonds done in black and light brown.
Fragment was possibly from one of the corners of a man's loincloth.
Fragment is braided in oblique twining.
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.