(Chancay Textiles from the Collection of) Museo Amano, Lima, Peru (1st Printing, in English and Japanese, 60 pages, illustrated)

Sinopsis

88 richly colored photographs of Andean textiles. The main possessions of our museum belong to the Chancay culture, and the textiles of that era far excels those of the other Andean culture. Above all, the variety of the techniques, designs and colors appears to have achieved the fruition of the ancient Andean textile culture. The reason why the Chancay textiles came to possess such characteristics still remains a mystery and stirs our imagination in many ways. ... I do not know of a person who has led a more checkered life. With 20,000 yen pocketed by a big hit in making Kosodate-manju cakes at a shop in Basha-michi in Yokohama, he left Japan for Latin America in 1928. He set up a department store Casa Japonesa in Panama, a farm Fund Andalien in Chile, the East Pacific Fishing Company in Costa Rica and so forth, it not take long for him to establish the status of being the richest man in Latin America. He devoted himself to research mainly into Chancay culture, which is why he was named "Schliemann of the Andes." ...in his later years Mr. Amano tried to read the message of the ancients from the beautiful patterns on the earthenwares or textiles.... Mr. Amano said, "It is wrong to jump to the conclusion that their culture stands at a low level simply because the Andean culture did not have writing."

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