Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles

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The Inka category of qumpi, or highest-status cloth, included elaborate objects that nevertheless fulfilled various functions, from combs to slings such as this, created and used primarily for warfare. Made with brightly colored camel hair thread and…

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A writing device—fulfilling the communicative purpose of recording and transmitting knowledge among trained individuals over time—the Inka khipu can take a number of forms (a mono- and polychrome example). In the ways that a handwritten poem and a…

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