Costume and History in Highland Ecuador

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments As editor, my first acknowledgment is to those authors who were asked to write chapters for the original book manuscript and then had to wait so many more years for me to be able to finish the book in which their contribution would actually appear.They have all been very understanding about this delay, and I am deeply grateful for their patience. Those who supported the fieldwork that was the basis for the original project were listed and thanked in both earlier books. Since this fieldwork contributes relatively little substance to the present volume, the long list of supporters’ names is not repeated here, but of course the book would not exist without them. A special note of thanks is owed to the late Olaf Holm, of the Museo del Banco Central in Guayaquil, who corresponded with both me and Karen Bruhns about our research for this book and provided much helpful assistance . The late Costanza Di Capua, in Quito, also provided much useful information by correspondence as well as by sending me some scarce publications . She also kindly arranged for me to photograph archaeological textiles at the Museo del Banco Central in Quito and to view textiles in the Ethnographic Reserve of the same museum in 1988. I am, of course, also grateful to the staff of the Ethnographic Reserve, María del Pilar Merlo and Silvia Benítez, who accommodated me most graciously. Laura Miller introduced me to people she knew at the Centro Interamericano de Artesanías y Artes Populares (CIDAP) museum in Cuenca. Hernán Jaramillo Cisneros of the Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología also showed Lynn Meisch and me some textiles from his collection in 1986. Ernesto and Myriam Salazar, archaeologists in Quito, and Jill and John Ortman, of La Bodega Artesanías and Centro Artesanal, were also helpful in various ways. I also am grateful to Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff in Bogotá for sending me publications and xvi Costume and History in Highland Ecuador for other collegial assistance. Ana Roquero in Madrid and Juan de la Cruz Rodríguez, curator of the Museo Etnográfico de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, also were helpful with references on Spanish costume. Since 1977, many current and former staff members of CIDAP in Cuenca have gone out of their way to help our research, including the director,Claudio Malo González, and the librarian, Betti Sojos, as well as Diana Sojos de Peña, Ana Francisca Ugalde, René Cardoso, and Blanca Inguiñez. For assistance in viewing collections of Ecuadorian textiles in this country and Europe, I am grateful to Lisa Whittall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1987; Eulie Wierdsma and Nancy Rosoff at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in 1987 when the collections were still in New York; Kimberley Fink at the Costume Institute , Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1988; Patricia Anawalt and Barbara Sloan at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at UCLA in 1993; Deborah Hull-Walski at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington in 1994; Leslie Freund at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, in 2005; Lena Bjerregaard and Manuela Fischer at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin in 2006; Ana Roquero, for introducing me, and Concepción García Sáiz, the curator, for showing me the Malaspina drawings at the Museo de América in Madrid in 2006; Nancy Rosoff again, now at The Brooklyn Museum, in 2007. Clark Evans kindly facilitated my research on Spanish costume in the Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress , and Janet Stanley helped me with references on seventeenth-century West African costume in the library of the National Museum of African Art. I also appreciate the willingness of Marilee Schmit Nason, Martha Egan, and George S. Vest to lend their Ecuadorian textiles to The Textile Museum for me to study for what turned out to be an extended period. The book is also greatly enriched by the donors of various older textiles as well as some photographs now in The Textile Museum collection, notably the late Sylvia Helen Forman, Dr. and Mrs. Walter H. Hodge, Bernard Fisken, Frances Ruddick, and George S. Vest. Sylvia’s partner, David Litwak, has been gracious about including objects of hers not in the museum’s collection. For assistance in obtaining photographs elsewhere, I am grateful to Encarnaci ón Hidalgo Cámara at the Museo de América in Madrid; Sophie Desrosiers at...