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  2. Culture of Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    Traditional folk dress during a festival in Bolivia. Bolivia is a country in South America, bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the west, and Peru to the west. The cultural development of what is now Bolivia is divided into three distinct periods: pre-Columbian, colonial, and republican.

  3. Aguayo (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional aguayos of different types and colors for sale at a crafts store in La Paz, Bolivia.. The aguayo [1] [2] (possibly from awayu, Aymara for diaper and for a woven blanket to carry things on the back or to cover the back), [3] [4] [5] [1] or also quepina [6] (possibly from Quechua q'ipi bundle) [7] [8] [6] is a rectangular carrying cloth used in traditional communities in the Andes ...

  4. Indigenous fashion of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Modifying traditional clothing styles, he altered components like necklines and sleeve length to create more contemporary fashions. [24] Around the same time, Eliana Paco Paredes ( Aymara ) of Bolivia began to design fashions based on the traditional costumes of the cholitas , using wool or aguayo fabrics, but fusing them with lace or silk and ...

  5. Lliklla - Wikipedia

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    It is worn by Quechua women of the Andes region in Bolivia and Peru. Traditionally it is fastened at the front using a decorated pin called tupu. [3] [4] In the Quechua-speaking community of Chinchero, men and women wear distinctive garments that identify them by gender and their community. These garments are woven in two parts—symmetrical ...

  6. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    [7] Aguayos are clothes woven from camelid fibers with geometric designs that Andean women wear and use for carrying babies or goods. Inca textiles. Awasaka was the most common grade of weaving produced by the Incas of all the ancient Peruvian textiles, this was the grade most commonly used in the production of Inca clothing. Awaska was made ...

  7. Quechua people - Wikipedia

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    The speakers of Quechua total some 5.1 million people in Peru, 1.8 million in Bolivia, 2.5 million in Ecuador (Hornberger and King, 2001), and according to Ethnologue (2006) 33,800 in Chile, 55,500 in Argentina, and a few hundred in Brazil. Only a slight sense of common identity exists among these speakers spread all over Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.

  8. Bolivians - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous peoples of Bolivia are divided into two ethnic groups: the Andeans, who are in the Andean Altiplano and the valley region, and the ethnic culture of the oriental Llanos region, who inhabit the warm regions of eastern Bolivia . Andean ethnicities. Aymaras. They live on the high plateau of the departments of La Paz, Oruro and ...

  9. Folk costume - Wikipedia

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    Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.