Abstract
The production of cloth, even to meet a community’s most basic needs, is one of the most time-consuming activities in non-industrial societies. This would have been all the more true of the beautiful textile arts of the Andean Middle Horizon. This paper presents data on a common artifact class related to textile manufacture, spindle whorls, recovered during excavation at Pataraya, a Huari colony located along a likely trade route between the south coast and the sierra in the southern Nasca Valley. The whorls were specially made, well-crafted, and nicely decorated. They were found in a number of different contexts suggesting that spinning was an ongoing, continuous activity woven into the other daily chores, special tasks, and extraordinary events of life at Pataraya.
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