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A Triangular Scarflike Cloth from Pachacamac, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ina VanStan
Ina VanStan*
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
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Abstract

A square, gauze-weave fabric, folded diagonally and ornamented on the two short sides with sewed-on pattern-weave bands, was found by Uhle beneath the Pachacamac temple and is probably the oldest gauze reported from Pachacamac. This unusual, triangular, scarflike cloth, with a style previously reported only from Ancon, indicates the use of still another type of made-up article at Pachacamac and the presence of another style category in this region. It suggests that the variety of sewed-to-form textiles produced in pre-Columbian Peru was greater than has been generally believed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , April 1965, pp. 428 - 433
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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