Mask Project: South America

whenever i think of central and south america, i think of the amazing civilizations of the Aztec and the Inca.

pre-inca textile, http://beforecolumbus.net/brooklynmuseum.html

there aren't many examples of Inca art left in Peru because most of their decorative art was made of gold. Melted down by the Conquistadors, it's all gone now.  So is their written record, obliterated by the Missionaries that came after the gold was all gone.  However, this little pattern really caught my eye-the alpaca is very important in Andean cultures all up and down the west coast of South America.