Andean Textile Symposium
Honolulu, Hawaii
September 24-27, 2008

This session is sponsored by The REED FOUNDATION

Speakers will include:
Vicki Cassman "Chinchorro Twined Shrouds (8000-2000BC)"
Amy Oakland  "The String or Grass Skirt; an Ancient Costume of the Southern
Andes"
Sophie Desrosiers "Revisiting the Ocucaje Tunic from the Textile Museum;
   Washington, D.C.:Textile Models and the Process of Imitation"
Ann Rowe "Spinning Pattern"
Ana Roquero "Identification of a Red Dye in an Ancient Textile from the Andean
Region"
Liliana Ulloa  "Tunics from the Azapa Valley, Formative Period: A New Weaving
Tradition at the Lower Valleys"
Wynne Minkes ""Warp the Loom and Wrap the Dead: Trapezoidal Shaped Textiles
from the Chiribaya Culture, South Peru (900-1400 AD)"
Elena Phipps "A Shaped Garment with Discontinuous Warps from the Southern
Andes"
Carolina Aguero "A Semi-Trapezoidal Tunic with Curved Borders; The
Pica-Tarapaca Complex of North Chile (900-1450AD) and Strategies of Territorial
Control"

Information about the conference can be found at:
http://textilesociety.org/symposia_2008.htm

Thanks--
Elena

Elena Phipps
Senior Museum Conservator
Textile Conservation Dept
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10028

tel: (212) 650-2465
email: elena.phipps@...