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. 59,9 x 49,7 cm (INC-MNAAHP, C-54220).
Mythical Being of the Crops
The figure depicted on this vessel wears a frontal diadem, nose ring, ear discs and serpent necklace. In its hands it carries a sacrificial knife and a severed head with the mouth sewn shut with cactus needles. The chilies, yucca, corncob, cactus stalks transformed into serpents, and severed head all link this figure to agriculture. A similar figure appears embroidered onto the funerary mantle so-called “of the staircases”, displayed in this exhibition.