Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/92 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Panel fragment from a mantle or shirt. Rectangular shaped with vertical zigzag pattern across surface. Zigzags alternate between brown-white and brown-red. All brown-white zigzags have brown-red interior borders. Small bird figures, done in brown-red, inside all brown-white lines. Patterns of feline figures and larger bird figures, done in brown-white, alternate between all brown-red lines. Diamond-like shapes throughout patterns in the brown-red zigzags. Motifs identical on back of textile, colours are inverse.
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.