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Jan Wouters, Noemi Rosario-Chirinos. 1992. Dye Analysis of Pre-Columbian Peruvian Textiles with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Diode-Array Detection. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. The American Institute for Conservation of Historic &. 31 (2): 237–255. doi:10.2307/3179495. JSTOR3179495