Textiles before Colombus Discovering Andean lifestyles at
Chile’s Museum of Pre-Columbian Art Garments, hairdresses,
belts, ceremonial outfits, and artifacts used on a daily basis
before the arrival of Colombus to South America are among
objects on display at the museum. The exhibition tells tales
about the traditions of men and women who lived and died in the
desert-dry regions of the Andes, as long as 3,000 years ago.
Monday, December 13, 2010 One of the museum's pre-columbian
exhibits. A woven figurine of two women stands out from other
objects on show in the Andean textile room at the Museum of Pre-
Columbian Art in Santiago. Sitting on a hand-made rug facing
each other as though in conversation, they are weaving garments.
The piece of art’s three-dimensional form makes the women look
alive, as though we are there, re-living the ancient moment with
them. If they were real and we could hear them talking, we might
find out more about who we are, the way we live and what we
believe. It is these stories of ide