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: Turban.
Headband: Turban.
Headband. Braided weave, oblique twining and cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 38, object Nº 43. 446 x 2 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1875).
Headband. Braided weave, oblique twining and cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 38, object Nº 43. 446 x 2 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1875).
Headband (detail). Braided weave, oblique twining and cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 38, object Nº 43. 446 x 2 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1875).
Headband: Turban III
This long, narrow braided band presents a series of eight intertwined serpents with three-dimensional heads and bodies decorated with waves or ‘x’s similar to the markings found on real-life snakes. Bands like these ones were wound around the head to appear like hair extensions, pointing to the symbolic relationship that existed in the Andean region between serpents and human hair.