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    groin WHORL TL Be ssa WHOIL TL oilding an fre-Columbian fpr documenced & 8 using (Pri Fotumbian textile Gurafa cave in C iecorated with fragments have be pays, however, | tied to conser & {gt discusted t tt articles on pre (acaxtla Batle m “bid” army were rene represented tnd McCafferty 1+ fedye decoration therefore as an act ‘Weaving in a 462), and additio ‘CHAPTER 46 AS THE WHORL TURNS FUNCTION AND MEANING IN MESOAMERICAN TEXTILE PRODUCTION GEOFFREY McCAFFERTY AND SHARISSE McCAFFERTY ‘Woven textiles were highly prized commodities in Pre-Columbian totheextent that they were commonly usd as tribute item and even asa of value in commercial exchange (Berdan 1987; Hicks 1994). The Codex. (0982) provides unique insights into textile exchange daring the contact pert with details on both raw materials and finished product, Beautiful textes depicted in various artistic representations including murals, sculptures, pletoral manuscripts. Unfortunately, due to the poor preservation of doth in region, archaeological textiles are rare. Instead, archaeological correlates of production, particulary in the form of spindle whos, provide some ofthe ‘evidence for these perishable items. This chapter will discus ways that textile duction has been approached archaeoogialy in terms ofboth is function cultural meanings. Ethnographic textiles from traditional societies throughout Mesoam have been collected and stdied for over a century (eg, Cordry and Cordry Foxx etal. 1997). Anthropologists and art historians have documented di costume styles as they relate to regional identities, as wes the symbolic met ngs attached to particular design elements. These studies provide glimpe of i possible levels of meaning that may have exited in Pre-Columbian textiles. RNS. ING

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