In Andes
Lama
I spent December 2023 in Andes. In
Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art I saw traditional hats with four small horns. As it was impossible to buy such a hat, I bought a book about them, “Headwear of the Atacama desert”. Here’s my sketch in a travel notebook with one of those hats:
That’s why I chose a material for the dedication to Kęstutis Kasparavičius in his illustration to the book “Bears’ travel” (2010), with traditional hats as on the sovereign spectacled bear and on his lama: