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New Perspectives on Inka Textiles

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Join The Textile Museum online for presentations and a discussion among scholars on how clothing shaped identity in the Inka Empire. This roundtable expands on the themes of the museum exhibition Weaving an Empire: Textiles of the Inka World and features authors contributing to volume 53 of The Textile Museum Journal. 

Presentations: 
Dress and Identity in the Inka Empire
Shelley Burian, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator

Variations in Men’s Warp-Faced Tunics from Southern Peru
Penelope Dransart, honorary reader, University of Aberdeen

A Chumpi Belt and the Role of Women Across the Inka Empire
Gaby Greenlee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University 

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