Latin American Traditional Clothes

Latin American fashion refers to the dress, body, and culture of a large world culture region that includes Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Latin America is highly diversified, overlapping socio-historical influences that have shaped the pursuit of

... elegance and transformed the dynamics of everyday life to elucidate some general characteristics. Prior to colonization, dress and textile had often served as sign of social and religious identity and as a medium of exchange.

In 2014 this collection was returned from the Paracas peninsula to Peru, this collection contains 89 textiles and will be transported over the course of seven years until the whole collection is returned by 2021.
2,000-year-old

Inca gold jewelry
This is more of religious symbol and they saw gold as a representative of the sun and believed that the more gold you wore, the closer you be with their god named Inti.

Mapuche ethnic jewelry from Argentina and Chile
It is believed that these jewelries were used for protection against the evils spirits, fertility and its representation of women and life, etc.

The Rumba dress, also known as the Bata Cubana which has become an iconic symbol of Cuba

Nicaragua main traditional clothings are mestizaje dresses and trencilla costumes

Panamanian Tembleques

Nose Ornament with Spiders
100 B.C.–A.D. 200