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Miniature Peruvian Shirts with Horizontal Neck Openings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ina VanStan
Ina VanStan*
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Abstract

Three miniature cotton shirts, found among the textiles of the Uhle collection from beneath the Temple of Pachacamac, in the University Museum, Philadelphia, show an unusual style of tubular construction in which the warp yarns run horizontally and the neck and arm apertures are located along the upper edge of the shirt. Apparently falling in Uhle's early classification of “Epigone Style” these miniatures show the same general garment form as that of a large shirt reported from the La Capilla cemetery of Hacienda Marques, and in addition, display pleats and a yoke-like use of warp-wise bands seen in a few garments of a related style reported from Piedras Gordas and Huacho, the latter presumably of later date than the former. Although the miniatures are sufficiently sturdy to have served as doll clothing, their purpose is unknown.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1961 , pp. 524 - 531
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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