Fragment: Border

Item number 3263/29 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Fragment of a curved border band. Semi-circular band divided into two rows. Top row is incompletely woven and white. Large yellow feathers, with white shafts, throughout white row. Feather designs move slightly into bottom row. Feather barbs that extend into the bottom row are dark brown. Bottom row is pink with dark brown flying birds, facing right side of band. Birds have yellow heads, pink eyes and heart-like shapes on their backs. Hearts done in yellow and pink. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.

History Of Use

Fragment was possibly from a shaped garment.

Specific Techniques

Bird designs, and partially completed feathers, done in slit tapestry weave. For the feathers, local warps replace the continuous warps. Warps done in cotton, wefts mostly done in camelid wool.

Narrative

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.