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
Skirt: Big-Eyed Being
Skirt (detail). Plain weave, cross-knit looping and embroidery in Linear style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 109. 298 x 56 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-5996).
Skirt (detail). Plain weave, cross-knit looping and embroidery in Linear style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 109. 298 x 56 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-5996).
Skirt. Plain weave, cross-knit looping and embroidery in Linear style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 109. 298 x 56 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-5996).
How the skirt was worn.
Skirt: Big-Eyed Being
The geometric motif embroidered onto the hem of this skirt consists of two felines in alternating positions, seen in profile with head facing forward and with spiked backs and tails. This is a feline version of the Big-Eyed Being. Skirts like this one were wound two or three times around the waist and the cords passed over the shoulders or crossed over the chest and tied.