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Tunic, Wari, c. 600–850 C.E., wool and cotton, 219.7 cm long, Peru (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design) speakers: Dr. Sarahh Scher and Dr. Beth Harris.
1 de feb. de 2023 · High fashion in the Andes, a Wari tunic. Watch on. Tunic, Wari, c. 600–850 C.E., wool and cotton, 219.7 cm long, Peru (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design) speakers: Dr. Sarahh Scher and Dr. Beth Harris. source. Tags. Smarthistory.
With their intricate designs and vivid colors, Wari tapestry tunics are some of the most striking textile creations of the Andes. Their unconventional use of distortion, abstraction, and deconstruction challenges the longstanding scholarly view of the arts of the indigenous Americas as uninventive, and subject to oppressing cultural norms.
Bold geometric forms and abstracted faces make up this vibrant tunic by the Wari people of the ancient Andes.
The textiles found on the Paracas Peninsula during the early decades of the twentieth century, with their elaborate religious iconography and brilliantly colored embroidery, are among the most spectacular to ever be discovered in Peru. They were buried as part of mummy bundles whose varying sizes indicate a stratified society.
- [Presenter] We're looking at a typical four-cornered hat from what is known as the Wari culture that existed well before the Inca in the area that is now the nation of Peru. - [Presenter] They're a Highland culture, which means that they were located up in the area of the Andes Mountains.
Tunic. In the second half of the first millennium A.D., the Wari peoples of Peru exerted strong cultural and political influence over the southern coastal and highland regions from their capital city, also called Wari (a few miles northeast of present-day Ayacucho).
