Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/32 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment from a mantle or shroud. Irregularly shaped and made up of two panels with different patterns. First panel, on left side, has diagonal rows across majority of surface. Rows alternate between interlocking snake heads, wave designs and birds. Done in natural dark brown and light grey-brown. Animal motifs done in an abstract geometric style. Left edge of first panel, where it meets the right panel, has a large white band trimmed with wave designs. Designs done in same dark brown and light grey-brown as the rest of the motifs. Second panel, on right side, is plain white. Panels stitched together with white thread. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
First panel done in alternating float weave, turned. Second panel done in warp-faced plain 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.