TEXTILE COLLECTION The textile collection of the MNAAHP has more than 32,000 specimens, among complete pieces and fragments corresponding to every cultural period from the Preceramic with cotton from 2,500 years B.C., through the Inca Period. Due to this, it is considered the world's second most important textile collection. The most important textile collection that we safeguard is that of Paracas, because of its artistic and technical quality, in addition to the wealth of iconographic information in the depictions on the diverse articles such as mantles, unkus (shirts), shoulder capes, breechclouts, slings, headdresses, wigs, etc. The mantles are the most spectacular objects, widely recognized at an international level. This collection is the most numerous and important in the world and countless times has been the source for consultation and research by eminent scientists.