Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/12 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a cloth. Rectangular in shape and coloured light golden brown. Design of two rows of brocaded feline figures, two vertical lines between each feline, across entire surface. Felines in top row face the right side of the fragment, felines in bottom row face the left side. Dark golden brown band along the bottom edge of the cloth, with two black lines through it. Textile stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Brocaded pattern done with discontinuous supplementary wefts. Band border done with continuous supplementary wefts.
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.