Alpaca. Chimi technique has been used in the ground of the textile in which plied yarns of two colours, creating a third colour and giving the textile a speckled appearance.

The incuna were worn as part of a woman’s costume. In daily life the incuna is used to carry objects, such as coca leaves and food, but it also plays an important ceremonial function in the Aymara animal fertility ritual. It is the ground cloth for the symbolic mesa, and anointed with coca, alcohol and llama fat.

See Aymara Weavings by Laurie Adelson and Arthur Tracht, Washington DC, 1983.

32 (w) x 33 (h) inches.

Inventory no. 6194

$3,500