Q'ero Unkuna Despacho Inner Cloth (QDP138) – Sacred Andean Textile

Name: Q'ero Unkuna Despacho Inner Cloth (QDP138) – Sacred Andean Textile
Brand: Q'ero Paqos

Q'ero Paqos

Q\u2019ero Paqo Shamanic Mesa Inner Cloth - Unku\u00F1a \u2022 Wachala \u2022 Sacred Andean Ritual Textile\n\nThis Q\u2019ero Paqo Unku\u00F1a Despacho Inner Cloth is a traditional Shamanic Mesa Inner Cloth woven by a Q\u2019ero Paqo family in the Peruvian High Andes.\n\nIn Andean tradition, a Paqo is a spiritual practitioner \u2014 often described in English as an Andean shaman or medicine priest. Within mountain shamanic practice, the inner cloth (Unku\u00F1a or Wachala) is placed inside a larger outer cloth (Mestana) and forms the heart of the mesa (medicine bundle).\n\nIt holds sacred stones (kuyas), prayer objects and personal medicine tools, representing the practitioner\u2019s inner world, while the outer cloth represents the outer world.\n\nRooted in living Andean cosmology and reciprocity (Ayni), this textile is both practical and symbolic within shamanic ritual work.\nStyle & Natural Variation\n\nThis style of Unku\u00F1a varies significant.