Poncho

Worn only on Sundays and during fiestas.

Purchased from Professor J. Antonio Garnica Davila on June 14, 1978. Professor Davila teaches history at the University of San Marcos in Cuzco. He had purchased the poncho ten years earlier in Chahuaytire (Chawaitiry), a small village located 18 kilometres outside of Pisac. He estimated that the previous owner wore the poncho for approximately 20 years in the Pisac area. He wore it for approximately 10 years after that.

Cotton poncho in a square shape made of two rectangular panels sewn in the middle with a decorative multi-coloured seam with a fringe around the opening for the neck. The panels have a striped pattern of yellow, cream, green and black on a red ground. In between the stripes are two different lozenge pattern bands in cream, red and black. All of the sides have a multi-coloured fringe.