Fragment: Shirt Item Number: 3263/49 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a lower edge of a shirt. Rectangular in shape and coloured white with dark brown designs overtop. Central row of zoomorphs- with bird, deer and feline(?) attributes- across entire surface. Row is trimmed with wave patterns on both the top and bottom. Short fringe along bottom edge of fragment.
Designs done in brocade (supplementary weft).
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.