Paracas Funerary Mantles: Offerings for Life – 2015
- Paracas funerary mantles: Offerings for Life
- Who Were The Paracas?
- The Wari Kayán Cemetery and Its discoverer
- What is a funerary bundle?
- Offerings for the Afterlife
- “Reading” the Images
- Severed heads, trophy heads
- Paracas textile art
- Three styles of embroidery
- A miniature outfit
- Headband: Turban I
- Headband: Turban II
- Headband: Turban III
- Turban-cloth: Two-headed serpents
- Skirt: Big-Eyed Being
- Uncu tunic with felines: Big-eyed Being
- Short poncho: Orcas
- Short poncho: Feline-Man
- Short poncho with fringes: Big-Eyed Being
- Attire of a Paracas chief
- Opening a funerary bundle from the Wari Kayán Necrópolis
- Mantles for the afterfile
- Bibliographic references
- Credits
Sculptural bottle. Early Nasca. Ceramic. 73,5 x 43,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP, C-54196).
Modeled Mythical Anthropomorphic Being
The intricate iconography of this vessel includes serpents, severed heads, and the Mythical Anthropomorphic Being, one of the principal deities of the Nasca and Paracas Necrópolis traditions. Objects similar to the diadem on its forehead, the nose ring and ear discs have also been found as metal ornaments in the funerary attire of deceased individuals, and appear as well on figures embroidered onto funerary mantles in this exhibition.