Uncu

Uncu was similar to a long tunic, ranging between 84 and 100 cms, with a 72-79 cms width range. However, the length of the highland and coastal garments was different; Uncu in the highland were sleeveless and longer than the coastal tunic. Kings, nobles, and ordinary people all wore Uncu. The design and motifs for these dresses were rank-, cultural-, and event-specific. For example, capac uncu was a rich, powerful shirt worn by Inca Roca (the king). Inca royals clothing consisted of tocapu an art of geometric figures enclosed by rectangles or squares.{{Cite book|last1=Cummins|first1=Thomas B. F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrpDAgAAQBAJ&q=uncu&pg=PA127|title=The Getty Murua: Essays on the Making of Martin de Murua's "Historia General del Piru", J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16|last2=Anderson|first2=Barbara|date=2008-09-23|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-0-89236-894-5|pages=127|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Feltham|first=Jane|url=http://archive.org/details/peruviantextiles0000felt|title=Peruvian textiles|date=1989|publisher=Aylesbury : Shire|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-7478-0014-9|pages=57}}{{Cite book|last=Shimada|first=Izumi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBiPCAAAQBAJ&q=uncu+tunic&pg=PT746|title=The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach|date=2015-06-01|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-1-4773-0393-1|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Dean|first=Carolyn Sue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGEyAQAAIAAJ&q=uncu+tunic|title=Painted Images of Cuzco's Corpus Christi: Social Conflict and Cultural Strategy in Viceregal Peru|date=1990|publisher=University of California, Los Angeles|pages=227|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Vargas|first1=Carlos A. González|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIupXFT1RLUC|title=Guaman Poma: testigo del mundo andino|last2=Rosati|first2=Hugo|last3=Sánchez|first3=Sánchez Cabello|date=2002|publisher=Lom Ediciones|isbn=978-956-282-560-3|pages=57, 113, 122, 123, 146|language=es}}{{Cite book|last=Bonavia|first=Duccio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5557AAAAMAAJ&q=uncu+tunic|title=Mural Painting in Ancient Peru|date=1985|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-33940-9|pages=120|language=en}}

Each garment was woven individually.{{Cite book|last=Murra|first=John V.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d18aAAAAYAAJ&q=The+yacolla+was+basically+a+blanket|title=The Economic Organization of the Inka State|date=1980|publisher=JAI Press|isbn=978-0-89232-118-6|pages=67|language=en}}

Ordinary Uncu was made from cotton blending with various camelidae fibres such as llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña, but for royal use, a whole finest cloth (cumbi) was used.{{Cite web|title=The Andean Uncu|url=http://www.lacma.org/andean-uncu|access-date=2021-06-03|website=LACMA|language=en}}

File:Uncu inca wari.jpg|Uncu

File:Chakana inca detalle textil uncu 001.JPG|Uncu

File:Tupa-inca-tunic.png|Inca tunic

File:Peru, Inca, 15th-16th century - Tunic - 1957.136 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|Inca Tunic, 15th-16th Century

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