Textile Item Number: 1067/8 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
The woven textile is striped with shades of brown and blue. Thin blue stripes separate thicker, pin-striped bands of light and dark brown. Towards one edge, the brown bands become much thinner without the pin-striping. Two edges are finished. One corner is gathered and tied.
Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.