Circulation of textiles as gifts between political relatives, e.g. in wedding celebrations, in recognition of incorporation into a common family group.
Use of textiles with specific characteristics in their colours and motifs, that are used in spiritual contexts, either religious or family rites of passage.
Idea associated with the origins of textiles, where women, as they are weaving are creating within the cloth relatives of their own group out of the parts of their enemies taken in war.
Use of textiles with specific characteristics in their colours and motifs, e.g. the use of the colour black and lloque or left hand threads (spun to the left) used in rituals, especially to check the production or activity of an enemy, and the cultural ideas about such uses.
Use of textiles with specific characteristics in their colours and motifs, e.g. natural colours and figures of animals, fodder, grazing places and herding implements, that are used in herding and pasturing contexts, especially in the rituals connected to animals.
Connections between textiles and the sphere of production, especially traditional farming and pasturing production in Andean societies, including productive foci in different ecological zones from the coast to the highlands. They include production rituals in which textiles are used and textile iconography conncted with productive aspects.
Link between textiles and the sphere of production, especially in the meaning of using them to promote a new generation of young, or wawas, both human and animal and vegetable.
Generic denomination to refer to those technological aspects of textile production. It refers, on the one hand, to developments in the loom and its equipment and tools used to elaborate textiles, and on the other, to the set of social relations generated around the interactions with the material world and products.
The close relation between textiles and their territoriality, in the sense of regional materials used as natural resources and raw material in their elaboration, and the iconographic expression of the elements of the ecology of that territory in their designs and colours.
All those textiles that form part of the systems of knowledge of the Andean region passed down from one generation to another outside of conventional reading and writing, e.g. in terms of the knowledge of production, in predicting the weather, etc that one can see in their figures.
Range of customs of presenting textile gifts between relatives in family rites of passage; at birth, the first haircut, rites of childhood and adolescence, marriage, housebuilding, rituals associated with taking on responsibilities amongst older people, and the use of textiles associated with illness and death.
Set of textiles and textile elements with specific characteristics used in curing rituals. Some examples are the threads spun to the left that are used as protection from illnesses, or the treads made of strands of black and white that are snapped over a patient to 'let a tranca go'.
Use of textiles with determinate characteristics in their colours and motifs in rituals to ensure production of crops and animals, and the cultural ideas associated with them.
Set of textiles with specific characteristics especially in the use of the colour black and skull designs used in rituals to defend territorial limits.
Use of textiles to document the annual increase in herds in pastoral production, especially the use of stripes of different widths, as well as the use of threads of different colours and textures in the case of quipus.
Use of textiles to document the yearly amount of agricultural production, especially through the use of stripes of different widths and the scale of specific figures, in addition to the use of threads of different colours and textures in the case of quipus.
Set of textiles with specific characteristics in their composition and colour used for commensal events, e.g. as the base for presenting food that will be shared at Aymara festivals (aphthapi).
Set of textiles with specific characteristics, e.g. the use of natural colours and figures of animals, meadows, places of pasturage and herding instruments, used in pastoral rituals.
Set of textiles with specific characteristics woven to this day as offerings to be incorporated into the bundles that are kept under the figures of saints, in churches.
