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
The chief attire
Attire of a Paracas chief
The attire of elite male members of Paracas society included the following items of clothing: 1) A long band of cloth wound around the head like a turban and sometimes decorated with a plume of feathers; 2) A second, narrower band of cloth wound on top of the first, sometimes with another turban of light cloth or a fox or deer hide; 3) A large rectangular cape or mantle covering the shoulders and arms; 4) A short poncho; 5) A tunic or uncu with sides sewn shut; 6) A skirt wound several times around the waist and tied with long cords; 7) A loincloth; and 8) Sandals, probably made of leather.
The women are believed to have worn long tunics attached at the shoulders with large brooches, or a skirt and shorter tunic with a horizontal neck slit.