Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/11 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a woman's head cloth panel. Cloth is coloured cream and rectangular in shape. Alternating vertical bands of dense gauze and plain weave. Right edge has a thick border. Fragment is stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Done in gauze weave. Complex 2/2 and 1/1 gauze weave crosses, in alternation with bands of plain 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.