Add to ORKGEvidence of ancient cultural contacts between coastal Ecuador and the mountains of West Mexico exists in clothing similarities between the two areas, namely tunic-like shirts and short breeches for males and a. tropical mode of dress for females. This non-Mesoamerican attire is illustrated in the early sixteenth century codex Relacion de Michoacan and also appears on mortuary figurines from the deep shaft tombs of Ixtlan del Rio, Nayarit (400 B.C.- A.D. 400). Coeval prototypes of this West Mexican clothing occur archaeologically along that section of the Ecuadorian coast which was the homeland of long-distance merchant navigators. Their trade goods, described by the Spanish, included local-style garments made of wool, a fabric foreign to Me...
The following articles have been presented at the meeting on Amerindian Textiles organized in 2013 a...
My recent study of Inca Period clothing has involved textile collections from three south coastal ar...
Costume is one of the most significant forms of material culture in ethnographic contexts, yet remai...
Evidence of ancient cultural contacts between coastal Ecuador and the mountains of West Mexico exist...
INTRODUCTION The history of peasant peoples all too often is sparsely recorded and poorly understood...
The earliest text known so far in the Americas was engraved on a potsherd found in Chiapa de Corzo i...
Textiles from central Mexico at the time of the Aztec empire are generally ascribed great significan...
This presentation analyzes three long-gone prehispanic textiles, a feat made possible due to the pec...
Spanning a 250 year period from 1565-1815, the Manila Galleon Trade is a fascinating period in histo...
Introduction Garments used throughout the Southern Andes from the early Pre-Columbian era to at leas...
In June 2002, the C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State\ud University received a gi...
Indigenous Andeans and the Spanish chroniclers in the early colonial era wrote about the pre-Hispani...
Garments used throughout the Southern Andean region from the early Pre-Columbian era to at least the...
Colonial chroniclers marveled at the quality and variety of textiles produced at the Postclassic cen...
On holidays and other festive occasions, Andean peoples in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru liked to ...
The following articles have been presented at the meeting on Amerindian Textiles organized in 2013 a...
My recent study of Inca Period clothing has involved textile collections from three south coastal ar...
Costume is one of the most significant forms of material culture in ethnographic contexts, yet remai...
Evidence of ancient cultural contacts between coastal Ecuador and the mountains of West Mexico exist...
INTRODUCTION The history of peasant peoples all too often is sparsely recorded and poorly understood...
The earliest text known so far in the Americas was engraved on a potsherd found in Chiapa de Corzo i...
Textiles from central Mexico at the time of the Aztec empire are generally ascribed great significan...
This presentation analyzes three long-gone prehispanic textiles, a feat made possible due to the pec...
Spanning a 250 year period from 1565-1815, the Manila Galleon Trade is a fascinating period in histo...
Introduction Garments used throughout the Southern Andes from the early Pre-Columbian era to at leas...
In June 2002, the C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State\ud University received a gi...
Indigenous Andeans and the Spanish chroniclers in the early colonial era wrote about the pre-Hispani...
Garments used throughout the Southern Andean region from the early Pre-Columbian era to at least the...
Colonial chroniclers marveled at the quality and variety of textiles produced at the Postclassic cen...
On holidays and other festive occasions, Andean peoples in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru liked to ...
The following articles have been presented at the meeting on Amerindian Textiles organized in 2013 a...
My recent study of Inca Period clothing has involved textile collections from three south coastal ar...
Costume is one of the most significant forms of material culture in ethnographic contexts, yet remai...