Gorros del desierto de Atacama
Subtitle: Headwear of the Atacama desert
By: organizan Museo de Antofagasta, DIBAM, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino ; colaboran Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Ley de Donaciones Culturales ; edición general, Carole Sinclaire Aguirre ; textos, José Berenguer Rodríguez ; traducción, Joan Donaghey
Contributors: Berenguer R., José; Berenguer R., José; Sinclaire Aguirre, Carole, editor; Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino; Museo de Antofagasta; Minera Escondida Ltda
Publisher: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santiago de Chile
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9789562430715
Subjects: Indians of South America; Exhibitions; Clothing; Headgear; Antiquities
Other titles: Headwear of the Atacama desert
Description: Forty-five caps, some made more than three thousand years ago, are displayed in the Museo de Antofagasta under the curatorship of the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. The museographer script gives an account of the social function of these textile head garments: representing the ethnic identity, or belonging to a genre or carrier position within society. Thus, the headdresses and clothing were part of a real language that conveyed identity, status and prestige. "The hats and headdresses exhibited here represent the many peoples that haveinhabited these territories over the past three thousand years. They reflect distinct ethnic groups as well as intra-group social differences that existed during those times".
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held August 6-October 26, 2015, at the Museo de Antofagasta in Chile.

At head of title: Minera Escondida presenta.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-105).

In Spanish and English in parallel texts.
Table of contents: title: Dressing the head in the Andes = Vestir la cabeza en los Andes; title: The era of the turban-wearers = La era de los enturbantados; title: Turbans for the hereafter =Turbantes para el más allá; title: Wool goes to their heads = La lana se les sube a la cabeza; title: The Tiwanaku centuries = Los siglos de Tiwanaku; title: The people of the four corners = La gente de cuatro puntas; title: Fur caps in the desert = De gorro de piel por el desierto; title: The age of warriors = La edad de los guerreros; title: Helmets go to war = Los cascos van a la guerra; title: Show me the hat you are wearing and... = Dime qué gorro llevas y; title: Under the Empire of the Sun = Bajo el Imperio del Sol; title: Headdresses of the Inca Royal Council = Los tocados del Consejo Real; title: The Empire loses its head = El Imperio pierde la cabeza; title: Epilogue = Epílogo.