2009/9/30 Käthe Barrows <[email protected]>: > The Mexican natives (Aztec, Maya, etc.), and those south of them > (Inca), wove of something like wool - goat? mountain sheep? - pre > European conquest.
The Inca used llama, alpaca, and vicuña! A weaving industry started to appear in the area around 600-700 BC among the Colla tribe; they were the empire before the Inca. (Can you tell that my mother wrote a book on Bolivian highland weaving, which is currently open on my lap? =} ) In the first millenium AD and for a wee short time after, there was an extensive trade network in place with the Mississippian culture, but I don't know if it made it far enough south to trade with the Inca. -E House _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
