Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/17 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a woman's head cloth(?). Rectangular in shape and coloured dark brown. Vertical columns of resist-dyed circles across surface. Mainly done in white, towards left side, and yellow-brown towards centre. Columns of circles begin to curve, towards the right side, halfway across fragment. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
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 plain weave.