Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/41 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a cloth. Irregularly shaped with straight top, left and right edges and a diagonal bottom edge that shortens the right side. Background is brown with white concentric diamond designs throughout. Diamond lines are done in stepped pattern. Textile stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment was likely from a carrying cloth for pack animals.
Double cloth done in 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.