Discuss the purpose of Inca tunics and the message, meaning, and symbolism in the Inca's use of pattern and color on cloth
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Essay responses should include these points:
The patterns on garments carried symbolic messages, including indications of a person's ethnic identity and social rank.
Each square represented a miniature tunic with a different pattern and meaning.
Among the Inca, cloths of cotton and camelid fibers were a primary form of wealth.
Both men and women worked as weavers for the central government, paying their labor taxes by producing textiles.
Cloth was deemed fit as an offering for the gods.
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