Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/38 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Rectangular panel fragment from a mantle or shroud. Bird and fish motifs, turned away from one another, between serrated zigzags across entire surface. On the front of the panel, the designs are done in dark brown and the background is white-brown. Colours are inverse on the back of the textile.
Done in alternating float weave, turned.
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.