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Man's Hat:
Square hats with corner points were a status marker in the Wari empire, in the ninth and tenth centuries. The style with added colored pile is known mostly from the south coast. The significance of the birds in unclear but the techniques and other designs found in the hats are Wari-influenced and the style as a whole is completely different from the one that preceded it. This kind of drastic style change is one of the clues archaeologists have used, in the absence of written records, to deduce that Wari influence constituted an empire. |