Centre for Textile Research
Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Article
Citation
Published in IX Jornadas Internacionales de Textiles Precolombinos y Amerindianos / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2022. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, 2024)
DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1623
Abstract
Los festones son bordados exteriores que se incorporan en prendas ya terminadas en un telar. En el presente texto intentamos un análisis de este tipo de terminaciones que circundaba las vestimentas de pequeñas estatuitas en esos importantes rituales de sacrificios infantiles que son las capacocha. Por la cantidad de reglas que implicaba su elaboración, tanto en lo que se refiere a su ubicación como en la sintaxis de su organización cromática, es posible considerarlos como verdaderos códigos que cumplían sus mensajes de comunicación y sus posibles poderes rituales, a partir de angostas listas de diferentes colores, sin necesidad de utilizar palabras.
The festoons are external embroideries that are incorporated in garments already finished in a loom. In the present text we attempt an analysis of this type of completions that surrounded the garments of miniature figurines in those important rituals of children sacrifices named as capacocha. Due to the number of rules involved in their elaboration, both in terms of their location and the syntax of their chromatic organization, it is possible to consider them as true codes that fulfilled their communication messages and their possible ritual powers, based on narrow lists of different colors, without the need to use words.
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