Yacolla (garment)

Yacolla was an outer garment in the Inca men's clothing that was similar to a mantle worn over the Uncu.[1]

Style

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Yacolla was a square-shaped woven cloth worn over the shoulder and tied to the corners of the cloth. Yacolla was made of finer cloth when the royals wore it. "Llicilla" was a woman's mantle held together with tupu pins.[1][2]

Yacolla was a part of daily clothing and also an item for grave goods.[3]

See also

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  • Tocapu, geometrical motifs used by Incas.
  • Anaku (dress), a skirt-type draped garment of indigenous women in the Inca Empire.
  • Cumbi, a fine luxurious fabric of the Inca Empire.

References

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  1. ^ a b Cummins, Thomas B. F.; Anderson, Barbara (2008-09-23). The Getty Murua: Essays on the Making of Martin de Murua's "Historia General del Piru", J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16. Getty Publications. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-89236-894-5.
  2. ^ Dictionary of Daily Life of Indians of the Americas. North American Book Dist LLC. 1981-01-01. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-937862-26-1.
  3. ^ Minelli, Laura Laurencich (2000). The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D. 1000-1534. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-8061-3221-1.