Read rows of patterns from an Inca tunic.
Five rows of tocapu motifs fill this surviving tunic waistband. Woven during Spanish colonial rule, such designs became a means for Indigenous elites to display wealth beyond earlier imperial restrictions.
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bessie Bennett Endowment; public CC0 mirror at Artheon Museum.
Creator: Colonial Inca Inca or Indigenous Viceroyalty of Peru, likely near Cuzco (now probably Peru, possibly Bolivia)
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