Chachapoya textiles; the Languna de los Condores textiles in the Museo Leymebamba, Chachapoyas, Peru.9788763504997 Chachapoya textiles; the Languna de los Condores textiles in the Museo Leymebamba, Chachapoyas, Peru Chachapoyas is a city in northern Peru at an elevation of 2,234 meters (7,657 feet). The city has a population of approximately 20,279 people. Situated in the mountains far from the Peruvian coast, Chachapoyas remains fairly isolated from other regions of Peru. . Ed. by Lena Bjerregaard. Museum Tusculanum Press Museum Tusculanum Press (Danish: Museum Tusculanums Forlag) is an academic press of the University of Copenhagen for the fields of humanities, social sciences and theology. It was founded in 1975 as a non-profit institution and publishes approximately 60 titles annually. 2007 119 pages $54.00 Hardcover F3430 Bjerregaard provides a catalog of 45 textiles from the collection of Laguna de los Condores at the Museo Leymebamba. She examines burial offerings and mummy bundle wrappings that were part of the discovery made in 1996 at a cliffside burial site in Chachpoyas, Peru. Essays by other scholars (of bioanthropology, archaeology, anthropology, and pre-Columbian studies from the US and Peru) on Chachapoya iconography, culture, khipus, and the project to rescue the finds and the construction of the Museo Leymebamba are included. The volume is well illustrated with good quality color plates of the site and finds as well as many b&w drawings of the weaves used. There is no index. Bjerregaard is a textile conservator conservator n. a guardian and protector appointed by a judge to protect and manage the financial affairs and/or the person's daily life due to physical or mental limitations or old age. in the Ethnographic eth·nog·ra·phy n. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures. eth·nog Museum in Berlin. Distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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