Chakira (Spanish: Chaquira) - an ornament of the Indians of Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , which was worn in the form of knitted large threads with beads from small stones, white and colored.
According to the historian Ciesa de Leon : “They wear adorable gold jewelry on their faces, and some very small ones, which are called the scarlet Chakira , which were sold and traded at high prices [exchanged]. And in other provinces I saw that this chakira was so appreciated it was given a lot of gold. In the province of Kimbaya (where the city of Cartago is located), individual cassiks and superiors gave Marshal Jorge Robledo more than 1,500 pesos for it for an incomplete pound of weight. At the same time, for 3 or 4 transparent diamonds they gave 200 and 300 pesos. " , "on their heads they wear a core from very small beads called “chakira", some made of silver, others made of tiger or lion skin "," they dressed in their capes and shirts, and wore on their heads ornaments, rounded in shape, made of wool and sometimes silver or gold, or from very small beads, as I said, called chakira . "