ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEXTILE STUDIES IN PERU

JULY 7 - JULY 27, 2009

PROPER EXCAVATION OF TEXTILES
July 7 - 14, 2009 in Arequipa, Peru. $960.

Been stuffing textiles from the field into plastic bags only to return to the lab with a dirty, wrinkled mess of fragments to deal with? There’s a better way! Learn proper excavation techniques for textiles: their unearthing, cleaning, wrinkle removal, aligning, analysis, paper mounting for transport, all while in the field. This is a fun course because it’s easy to do and makes so much sense.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEXTILE STUDIES
July 14 -20, 2009 in Arequipa, Peru. $960.

Learn to identify, analyze and document the features of the ancient textile techniques: fiber id, yarn spin/ply, weave type, thread count, density, selvages, etc.; graph the designs, and make a sampler of the ancient weaves you have analyzed. We include lectures on the textile history of Peruvian cultures and their woven iconography. Lots of work, but you’ll learn more about archaeological textiles than you ever thought you could.

TOUR OF THE SOUTH COAST
July 21 - 27, 2009. $1140.

Join us in an informative week of sight-seeing along the south coast of Peru after the course work is over. See the fantastic museums and sites in Puerto Inca, Nasca, Ica, Paracas, Ballistas Islands, Tambo Colorado and Lima as you journey up the coast back to Lima to catch your flight home.

Take all three weeks of the above programs for the special price of $2820. The price for the courses includes an airport pickup in Arequipa, hotel and meals in Arequipa during the course, course syllabus and course supplies. The South Coast Tour includes all transportation, hotel, meals and museum fees. Round trip airfare to Peru is not included in the price.

Contact Grace Katterman with any questions about the courses, the class schedule, or sign-up sheet at glkatt@hotmail.com

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Katterman, Grace and Francis Riddell
1994 A Cache of Inca Textiles from Rodadero, Acari Valley, Peru in the Journal
of Andean Past, Vol.4. Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, Ithica, NY. Press. pp.141-167

Katterman, Grace
1994 Early Cotton Textiles from Hacha,Peru. The Journal of Andean Past, Vol. 4
Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, Ithica, NY. pp. 39-51.

2004 Tela y Tecnica Entre Los Incas Provincianos de la Costa Sur Del Peru.
Tejiendo Suenos en el Cono Sur, textiles andinos: Pasado, Presente y Futuro.
Actas del Simposio, Arq 21, 51st Congreso Internacional de Americanistas,
Santiago de Chile, Julio de 2003, pp. 261-276.

2006a Costuras de Union y Remates apuntadas de la Ropa del la Costa Sur del
Peru durante los tiempos de los Incas, Actas, III Jornadas Internacionales
sobre Textiles Precolombinos. Victoria Solanilla Demestre (ed). Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, pp.261-276.

2006b Tributo Estandardizado de la Ropa de Mujer al Servicio del Gobierno Inca.
Foletto de exhibición en El Museo Sanctuarios Andinos, Arequipa. Universidad
Catolica de Santa Maria y el Instituto Californiano de los Estudios Peruanos, Arequipa. (8 paginas)

2007 Una Comparison de las Tunicas de la Costa Sur durante el Horizante Tardio,
Boletín Andes, Materiales del Simposio Internacional sobre Arqueológia del Area Centro Sur Andina, 30 Junio - 2 July, 2005. Universidad de Varsoya y la Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria, Arequipa.

In press: Clothing from Quebrada de la Vaca West, an Inca Cemetery of the South
Coast of Peru. The Journal of Andean Past, Vol. 7, Cornell University Latin
American Studies Program, Ithica, NY