What does the checkerboard pattern on this Inca textile indicate about the person wearing it?
Inca officials wore stylized tunics that indicated their status. It contains an amalgamation of motifs used in the tunics of particular officeholders. For instance the black and white checkerboard pattern topped with a pink triangle is believed to have been worn by soldiers of the army. Some of the motifs refer to earlier cultures such as the stepped diamonds of the Huari and the three-step ...
Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America. Knotted strings were used by many other cultures such as the ancient Chinese and native Hawaiians but such practices should not be confused with the quipu which refers only to the Andean device.. A quipu usually consisted of cotton or ...
The term kente means basket and refers to the checkerboard pattern of the cloths. The cotton for early Kente was locally grown but the silk was imported since silk moths are not indigenous to Ghana. In present day kente is found worn across the population however its use is still concentrated among high society members and the wealthy.
The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu lit. "four parts together") also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative political and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco.The Inca civilization arose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th century. Its last stronghold was conquered by the ...
Houndstooth hounds tooth check or hound's tooth also known as dogstooth dogtooth dog's tooth or pied-de-poule is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes often in black and white although other colours are used. The classic houndstooth pattern is an example of a tessellat...
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