Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
A square, gauze-weave fabric, folded diagonally and ornamented on the two short sides with sewed-on pattern-weave bands, was found by Uhle beneath the Pachacamac temple and is probably the oldest gauze reported from Pachacamac. This unusual, triangular, scarflike cloth, with a style previously reported only from Ancon, indicates the use of still another type of made-up article at Pachacamac and the presence of another style category in this region. It suggests that the variety of sewed-to-form textiles produced in pre-Columbian Peru was greater than has been generally believed.