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More Chibcha textiles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sylvia M. Broadbent*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside CA 92521–0418, USA

Extract

In 1985, a short article of mine on Chibcha textiles in the British Museum (the Bunch collection) appeared in Antiquity (Broadbent 1985). In July of that year, while in Bogotá for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, I had an opportunity to examine a fine new collection of textiles in the Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) from the museum of Pasca, a small town near the southern edge of Chibcha territory. According to Cardale (1986). they are said to come from caves on the Páramo de Pisba. Although my analysis of them was somewhat sketchy, the time available being very limited, they seem to confirm the distinctive features I observed in the Bunch collection. I was allowed to take small samples of three of them for radiocarbon dating at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) dating facility. It therefore seems appropriate to present this short note as a sequel to the previous paper.

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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Footnotes

Further information has come to light concerning Chibcha textiles, from central Colombia, that have previously been noticed in ANTIQUITY

References

Broadbent, S.M. 1985. Chibcha textiles in the British Museum, Antiquity 59: 2025.Google Scholar
Cardale, M. 1986. Painted textiles from caves in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, in Ann Rowe, (ed.), The Junius B. Bird Conference on Andean textiles: 20518. Washington (DC): Dumbarton Oaks.Google Scholar