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
Headband: Turbans.
Headband . Tubular cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 382, object Nº 12. 450 x 10 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1265).
Headband (detail). Tubular cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 382, object Nº 12. 450 x 10 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1265)
Headband (detail). Tubular cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 382, object Nº 12. 450 x 10 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1265)
How the turban was worn.
Headband: Turban II
The decoration on this long, cross-knit looping headband features 32 two-headed serpents in outline, intertwined with each other, and the face of the Big-Eyed Being. Each end of the headband has five strips, like a five-fingered hand. The band was wound around the head like a turban, leaving the “fingers” to hang free on the side.