Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/44 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a garment(?). Rectangle-like in shape and coloured brown. Design of brocaded interlocking feline heads, done in red and yellow, across entire surface of top portion of cloth. Wide light blue-grey border along bottom edge. Bottom and right edges trimmed in red-brown.
Design done in supplementary weft pattern weave. Border done in supplementary weft.
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.