Yacolla (garment) explained

Yacolla was an outer garment in the Inca men's clothing that was similar to a mantle worn over the Uncu.^[1]

Style

Yacolla was a square-shaped woven cloth worn over the shoulder and tied to the corners of the cloth. Yacolla was made of finer cloth when the royals wore it. "Llicilla" was a woman's mantle held together with tupu pins.^[2]

Yacolla was a part of daily clothing and also an item for grave goods.^[3]

See also

• Tocapu, geometrical motifs used by Incas.
• Anaku (dress), a skirt-type draped garment of indigenous women in the Inca Empire.
• Cumbi, a fine luxurious fabric of the Inca Empire.

Notes and References

1. Book: Cummins. Thomas B. F.. The Getty Murua: Essays on the Making of Martin de Murua's "Historia General del Piru", J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16. Anderson. Barbara. 2008-09-23. Getty Publications. 978-0-89236-894-5. 127. en.
2. Book: Dictionary of Daily Life of Indians of the Americas. 1981-01-01. North American Book Dist LLC. 978-0-937862-26-1. 398. en.
3. Book: Minelli, Laura Laurencich. The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D. 1000-1534. 2000. University of Oklahoma Press. 978-0-8061-3221-1. 114. en.