Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/39 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a wide panel from a mantle or shroud. Rectangular in shape with ground cloth coloured light brown. Columns on the left and right sides with designs done in float weave. Columns are white with dark brown diamond outlines overtop. Inside diamonds are fish and bird motifs, done in abstract geometric style. Decorations on the right column only clearly visible on the back of the textile, material has been lost on the front. In between the two columns are vertical dark brown and indigo coloured stripes.
Columns done in alternating float weave, turned, and stripes done in warp-faced plain weave. Blue stripes dyed with indigo.
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.