The Finished Product

After meeting with Emily to discuss the layout and interactive components of our joint project, it should be up and running by December 22! I have finished all of the text (after hours of research and writing) and it just needs to be put onto the website. There will be a women, modeled by Emily, and two Guaman Poma illustrations with descriptions of each article of clothing. I am very proud of this final product and I hope that readers will gain a better understanding of Inca clothing and textiles. I wish I had started earlier so that Emily and I could have a male model to accompany the female, but I believe it is still a great presentation. I would like to give a special thanks to Anne Tiballi for her help in reconstructing how the Inca were clothed. Lastly, if this project were to be continued in the future, I would to try and cloth the other models created by my classmates. I have a much better understanding about Inca culture after completing this project and I cannot wait to see my other classmates contributions!

Final Project

For the last few weeks of the semester, I have been working on my part of the final class project. I originally wanted to research rituals conducted during the height of the Inca Empire and compare them to a some still practiced now. However, it was not long into my research that I realized the information documenting rituals occurring in modern day Peru did not have many reliable sources or enough information to make a legitimate comparison. So, with not much time left in the semester, I decided to completely change my focus to help with the project as a whole. My individual contribution then became research on the clothing and textiles of the region worn by upper-middle class Inca men and women. I met with Anne Tiballi, a graduate student at Penn specializing in this field, and she provided me with great resources. Since I am unable to do any modeling myself, I partnered with Emily to create a female model and descriptions. Tune in to see the final product on the website!