Chimu tunic, loincloth, an turban via The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Beautiful.
The Chimú were the residents of Chimor, with its capital at the city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo, Peru. The culture arose about 900 AD. The Inca ruler Tupac Inca Yupanqui led a campaign which conquered the Chimú around 1470 AD,.[1]
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The majority of Chimú textiles were made from alpaca wool.[12] Judging from he uniform spin direction, degree of the twist, and colors of the threads, all of the fibers were likely prespun and imported from a single location.
Can’t complain about a civilization with homoerotic pottery!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimu
4 months ago • Notes