Due to the poor preservation of textiles in the region, the people who made me, the Moche, are better known for their beautiful ceramic works. However, the skills required to make me had been developed much earlier and passed down from weaver to weaver for much longer than the skills of potters.

Around A.D. 650-850 a Moche artisan wove me using a design that includes imagery associated with the Wari people. I was made during a time period known to have been dominated by the Wari. Their homeland was in the central highlands but their influence spread throughout much of the land that is now called Peru.

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