Inka Culture
Inka Culture playing cards, Peru, c.2000, promoting alpaca and cotton.
Inka Culture playing cards
Inka Culture playing cards, Peru, c.2000. See also: Inka-Dynasty and Inka-Calendar playing cards. The same images depicting traditional Peruvian culture are repeated in each suit with large, bold indices in the corners and captions in English and Spanish.
Above: Inka Culture playing cards, Peru, c.2000, published by Misk'i Alpaca and Cotton, whose details are shown on the box flap (shown right). The cards have square corners, 52 cards + 2 Jokers.
See also: Inka-Dynasty and Inka-Calendar playing cards.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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