HISTORY 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Uncus, Yoruba People, Cannibalism
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Skills in the two major available fibers developed out of a need for warm clothing. Other than used to make for items of necessity, textiles might also function as forms of cultural and political expression. The abstract patterns and designs on the uncus conveyed complex symbolic information about order in the andes and the universe. An uncu might also set out an interpretation of history, with its precise iconography establishing a living ruler"s special identification with an ancestral king. A ruling inka"s tunics changed with the calendar and to meet the needs of feasts or other occasions. The collcapata design is thought to suggest the rows of stone storehouses to which agricultural tribute flowed from the four quarters of the empire. The collcapata seems to have expressed concepts of commonality and, unlikely, unity of all ranks or people, representing a careful kind of foundation upon which the structure of.
