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
Serving dish. Early Nasca. Ceramic. 22,1 x 38 cm (INC-MNAAHP, C-05768).
Painted Mythical Anthropomorphic Being
The offerings found inside the Paracas funerary bundles include a variety of facial ornaments, most of them made of gold leaf. These include diadems, nose rings and disc-shaped ear ornaments. Images of these ornaments found on figures embroidered into the Paracas mantles, as well as those decorating Early Nasca ceramic vessels, show us who used those ornaments and how they were worn.