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Inca Checkerboard Tunic
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280511
Game on...on the radio...Angels at Dodgers...Freeway Series, Spring Training...I've got a ticket for tomorrowmorrow...Dodgers at Angels...usually these games are sold out...or tickets very expensive...this time eight dollar one cost twenty, and with snacks and parking, I'll spend forty...tonight, Kershaw on mound for Dodgers...newbie Davidson for Angels...they found another Inca checkerboard tunic!!!...brb...game hasn't begun..few minutes to 'play ball'...OH!...search found this too:
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Miniature checkerboard tunics, smaller than the present example, have been found with small gold, silver, and shell figurines as part of capac hucha or “ritual obligation” offerings, a type of ritual practice designed to extend and unite the vast landscape of the Inca Empire.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/751900
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The empire imposed a set of state canons, which were systematically reproduced throughout the empire. Weaving agents, despite being subject to state canons, also applied their own thought processes and expertise to their craft. In doing so, they imbued fabrics with attributes from their own cultural traditions.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/inka-tunic-0017941
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First pitch, Ward flies out...Trout up...at Ancient Origins is a pictograph on a boulder of a checkerboard, red/white squares, in Chile, where this tunic was found...Trout K...Ohtani up...a paper about this tunic goes on about a lot, one thing, how it has subtle different colors unique to it...the weavers did this!...communicated with color variations...oh, Ohtani K too...made Kersahw look too good!...the checkerboard pattern pre-dates the Inca...back there with the Moche, Wari, too, which the authors acknowledge...close reading required!...the checkerboard is one 'canon', and the step fret triangle, another!...three up three down...to top of second...Drury K...Regnifo up...fly out to Betts...fc by Valenzuela get Regnifo at second...
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Standardized Inka tunics, or unku, were created under the auspices of the state as symbolic expressions of its expansionist power. To ensure these textiles acquired the status of effective insignias of power and territorial control, the Inka established and imposed technical and stylistic canons for their production (techne) by means of highly-skilled state weavers. In the provinces, social groups that came under imperial rule, local expert weaving agents adopted the conventions of the state and included meaningful symbolic elements of the idiosyncrasies, traditions, and experiential knowledge of the local community (metis).
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While visibly reflecting the state’s aesthetic canons, provincial Inka styles were characterized by additional features or modifications, such as the use of different color combinations, geometric designs, or some form of iconography associated with the local landscape [67]. It appears, therefore, that the state posed no impediment to the application of local canons during the production process. To the contrary, it is likely the state allowed flexibility for agents to employ certain local practices that could be reproduced by hand while incorporating stylistic expressions of the state [14].
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280511
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Muncie HR...Angels 0, Dodgers 1...aaand, back to back, Taylor HR...just two pitches back to back!?...Angels 0, Dodgers 2...this checkerboard was found hundreds of miles South of Cuzco...Tuesday's game a visit a thousand miles or more North for more 'canon'...to top of fourth, Angels 0, Dodgers 2...roll out for a snack...bbk with report...Angels 0, Dodgers 3...aaand, back from game tonight, Monday, and Dodgers 4, Angels 5...only inside stadium for three innings...had to come from umpiring in Irvine, and the parking lot jammed full, though stadium had seats, so I left early to avoid the tangled waiting...the new pitch time clocks are really annoying...beside each dugout, and in outfield...they start at fifteen seconds when the pitcher steps on the rubber, go dark when he begins wind up from rubber...in big marquee numbers...aaand, they raised parking from ten dollars to twenty...mmmmph...no stadium snacks because of parking fee...picked up a chicago dog from deweinwershnitzel, parked in the drive at home, listened to last two innings...both good games...Trout shook off his K streak with 2 run home run...put a halo over this one!
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