lliclla, pinned at the breast with a tipki pin, which is generally smaller than a
tupu pin. Like the fabric used for the dresses, that of the llicllas was generally
woven in stripes of solid colors.
An uncu or man’s tunic in provincial
Chachapoya-Inca style, a classic example of
the hybrid textiles produced in the Inca
Empire. The iconography is Chachapoya, but
certain technical features point to its Inca
affiliation. Adriana von Hagen, courtesy Museo
Leymebamba, Leymebamba, Amazonas,
Peru.Small holes in the tupu pins, which were worn with the points facing upward,
served to secure a cotton cord attached to a tubular woven structure studded with
various items ranging from the ornamental, such as palm seeds or shell carvings,
to the utilitarian, such as combs, weaving utensils, and metal tweezers.
On their heads women displayed headbands or a headcloth folded several
times known as a pampacona or a ñañaca, and they wore their hair loose or
braided. Their feet were shod with sandals of cabuya (a fiber derived from the