Aguayo (cloth)
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 region of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.[1] Aymara and Quechua people use it to carry small children or various other items in it on their backs.[1][6][2] It is similar to a lliklla and sometimes regarded as a synonym.[8]
Gallery
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Quechua woman in Peru wearing a loaded aguayo
Quechua woman in Pisac, Peru, carrying a child in an aguayo
Quechua woman in Chivay, Peru, carrying wood in an aguayo
Women wearing aguayos while dancing the Carnavalito in Jujuy, Argentina
A Peruvian woman carrying a child in an aguayo
Sources
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Real Academia Española. "aguayo". Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- 1 2 Osborne, Harold (1952). Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas. Routledge. p. 222. ISBN 9781136544521.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - â Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, a historical dictionary by Ludovico Bertonio (1612)
- â Ministerio de EducaciĂłn, DirecciĂłn National de EducaciĂłn Bilingue Intercultural, Yatiqirinaka Aru Pirwa, Lima, 2005 (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
- â Sotero Ajacopa Pairumani, LĂ©xico textil aymara y quechua desde los saberes locales (in Spanish)
- 1 2 3 "Quepina (Quepinas, Q'ipina, Queperina)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- â Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, AcademĂa Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (5-vowel-system): Q'epirina ... . SinĂłn: q'eperina, q'epina.
- 1 2 Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario BilingĂŒe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
See also
[edit]- Andean textiles
- Indigenous textile art of the Americas
- Poncho
- Rebozo, a similar piece of cloth used in Mexico
External links
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Media related to Aguayo at Wikimedia Commons
