Fragment: Belt Item Number: 3263/53 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a belt. Clean-cut along top edge of textile. Pattern of diagonal bands across entire surface. Warp fringe along the bottom edge. Fringe is mix of brown, dark cream and white. Diagonal bands alternate between interlocking triangle motifs and bird-like figures. Triangles are coloured white and dark cream. The bands with bird-like figures have alternating white and dark cream backgrounds, with the birds coloured dark cream and white respectively. Striped border along left and right sides. Done in brown and white.
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.
Done in warp patterned weave ("pebble" weave) with outlining and warp substitution.