Fragment: Garment Item Number: 3263/31 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a garment with a border. Background is brown with wide horizontal, dark red band through centre. Brown birds throughout band, facing towards the right side, with dark red eyes. Band bordered on top and bottom with thinner dark brown bands. Dark red birds, with brown eyes, facing towards the right side, inside both thin bands. Thin bands bordered with dark red lines. Golden brown fringe along bottom edge of garment. Vertical seam towards right edge of fragment. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment is possibly from a man's loincloth.
Main body of fragment done in plain weave, made of cotton. Woven fringe has camelid wool wefts and cotton warps, that continue from the plain weave above. Border done in slit tapestry weave.
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.