Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts(YUP))

by Bard Graduate C Bard Graduate C (Author), Nicola Sharratt (Author)

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  Paperback
  2014

  $26.49

  Textile production and consumption has played a central role in the economy of the Andes region of South America since the Inca Empire (AD 1400-1532). This book traces 1500 years of textile arts in the Andes, with a focus on chuspas, small bags originally designed to hold coca leaves.