<img width="640" height="640" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-700x700.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Image features: Mantle decorated with series of broad and narrow horizontal bands in reds, pale tan, cream, pale yellow, blues, silver. A broad band across the middle is made up of ten narrow bands, with adjacent rectangles containing Inca geometric patterns and some adapted Tiahuanaco eye forms, separated throughout and edged top and bottom with variety of guard stripes. Above and below this broad central band are slightly narrower pink bands, edged top and bottom with small stepped scallops and filled with close-set mermaids and bird, fish, animal and floral motives, seemingly scattered, but actually set symmetrically on either side of two central vases set one above the other in each band and filled with flowers and fruit. Two narrow bands with attendant varied guard stripes border the mantle at top and bottom; the inner red band is similar to the bands in the center of the mantle; the outer cream-grounded band contains a series of bird, fish, and floral motives symmetrically spaced on either side of the central axis of the mantle; pink guard stripes terminate the mantle at top and bottom. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-700x700.jpg 700w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-150x150.jpg 150w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-300x300.jpg 300w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-640x640.jpg 640w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-170x170.jpg 170w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="33692" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2019/05/02/andean-womens-mantle/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/44660_62bafb1f0fd1d9f7_b-700x700.jpg" />This post was originally published on December 20th, 2012. This beautiful cloth is a woman’s shoulder mantle, called a lliclla in the Quechua language of the Inca Empire, and was made during the colonial period of Peru. A perfect blend of the cross-cultural elements of the 16th- and 17th-century era of global trade, the Chinese...
