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Poncho (Quechua)

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Maker Once Known, Quechua People (Bolivia)
Poncho (early 20th century)
wool
99.5 x 114.0 cm
Donated by Prof. Dwight B. and Anna Cooper Heath as the David B. Heath Memorial Collection
1999-62-7

This is a wool poncho. It consists of two lengths of finely woven wool sewn together. It is dark brown with predominantly red and orange bands with an elaborate diamond design as edging. 

This textile was produced by the Quechua, a South American Indigenous people living in the Andean highlands from Ecuador to Bolivia. There are many regional varieties of Quechua, which was the language of the Inca empire and which later became the common language of the Spanish and Indigenous people throughout the Andes. For more on Andean weaving traditions, please visit the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco where weavers from the Andes have put together a timeline of the region's long-standing textile traditions.

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