The Washington Post, July 20th, 1991
The weaver, at work on his loom, contorts with pain as the priest beats him with a bough. This 1615 drawing and others by a Peruvian Indian are reproduced as a poignant counterpoint to the Textile Museum's new exhibit, "Fabric of the Inca Empire: Traditions Suppressed by the European Invasion." The artist, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, wrote and illustrated a long document to the Spanish king to protest the "abuses of many Spanish administrators in Peru, not excepting the clergy," a wall panel explains. The exhibit came about, curator Ann Pollard Rowe said, when she was overwhelmed by the hoopl...
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