Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/4 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a woman's two-panel head cloth. Square-like in shape and coloured dark brown. Alternating rows of paired plain bands and loose gauze. Rows of gauze are wider than the plain. Braid along the entire right side, close to textile edge, marking the two panels. Fragment is stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Done in plain and gauze weave. 1/1 and 2/2 gauze weave crosses alternate in straight alignment.
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.