Fragment: Cloth Item Number: 3263/9 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a woman's head cloth panel. Textile is square-like and cream coloured. Mainly done in loose gauze weave with sections of dense gauze weave throughout. Rows of "X"-like shapes and four-pronged designs embroidered across surface. Done in glide symmetry. Pronged design alternates between facing upwards and facing downwards. Textile stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Done in gauze weave. 1/1 in vertical alignment with second, knotted, weft. Has added embroidery.
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.