Yacolla (garment)

This article is about a mantle. For other uses, see Yacolla (disambiguation).

Yacolla was an outer garment in the Inca men's clothing that was similar to a mantle worn over the Uncu.

Style

Yacolla was a square-shaped woven cloth worn over the shoulder and tied to the corners of the cloth. Yacolla was made of finer cloth when the royals wore it. "Llicilla" was a woman's mantle held together with tupu (pins).

Yacolla was a part of daily clothing and also an item for grave goods.

See also

• Tocapu, geometrical motifs used by Incas.
• Anaku (dress), a skirt-type draped garment of indigenous women in the Inca Empire.
• Cumbi, a fine luxurious fabric of the Inca Empire.