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Threads of time.

Publication: Americas (English Edition)
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Threads of time.(!Ojo!)(Museo Amano in Lima, Peru)

Article Excerpt
TUCKED AWAY ON a quiet street in the upscale Miraflores neighborhood of Lima. Peru. the Museo Amano houses an extensive collection of pre-Inca textiles, amassed by a Japanese entrepreneur and amateur archaeologist who immigrated to Peru in the 1950s.

Although the museum has thousands of pre-Columbian pottery pieces, it is the textiles-richly dyed tapestries, whimsical embroideries, delicate lace fragments--that form the heart of the collection. Most come from Peru's Chancay culture. which flourished along the Pacific coast north of Lima from around 1200 AD until the mid-1400s.

The Chancay Valley's arid, consistent climate led to better preservation of...

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