Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/43 a-c from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Three fragments from a four-part cloth. Two fragments are from the same section of the cloth (parts a and b). The largest fragment (part a) is irregular in shape and the second largest fragment (part b) is triangular in shape. Both are white with dark yellow zigzag designs across their surfaces. Dark blue geometric patterns spread throughout the dark yellow designs. Part a has an "H"-like shape in the centre, with dark blue and olive green geometric designs inside it. A thin rectangle, towards the bottom edge and close to the left side, of part b has similar olive green and dark blue designs inside it. The smallest fragment (part c) is rectangular in shape and light brown. It has geometric and curvilinear motifs, done in maroon and outlined in dark green, across its entire surface. Wavy line border, along top edge of part c, done in maroon.
Ica style cloth, from the Inca or Colonial period?
Done in brocade (supplementary weft patterning).
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.