Fragment: Tunic Item Number: 3263/21 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a garment. Textile is olive green and rectangular in shape. Has a vertical stripe pattern across surface. Three thin stripes in the centre of the pattern. All are trimmed with dark blue and have alternating white and maroon rectangular outlines inside them, towards the top edge. Bottom portion of the thin stripes have alternating maroon and white triangles. The central three stripes are flanked on either side by wide dark blue stripes with mirrored human-like figures and ovals inside them. Designs done in white and golden brown. Right side of textile is maroon. Fragment is stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment is likely from a large tunic.
Patterns done in warp-faced plain weave and complementary warp 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.