Fragment: Strap Item Number: 3263/13 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a strap or belt. Rectangular in shape and coloured light brown. Repeating pattern of yellow rectangles and red squares across entire surface. Two red bird-like figures facing one another inside each rectangle. One yellow bird-like figure inside each square, facing towards the left side of the fragment.
Done in a three-colour float weave ("pebble" 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.