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- Collection: The Kaleidoscope of Textiles: Dress as Multidimensional Cultural Documents
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Woman's Huipil, Guatemala
Huipils are precolonial garments used by indigenous people within the Mayan region in Central America. The Maya civilization developed thousands of years ago, with descendants living today in an area that incorporates southeast Mexico, all of…
Textile Fragment from Chancay People, Peru
Andean textiles are some of the most intricate and technically complex textiles in the world, reflecting development over thousands of years prior to Spanish contact and continuing through modern times. Textiles were used in Andean culture as a form…