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
Fringed short poncho. Plain weave cotton, embroidered in the Broad Line style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 56. 101 x 72,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP RT-1422)
Fringed short poncho. Plain weave cotton, embroidered in the Broad Line style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 56. 101 x 72,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP RT-1422).
Fringed short poncho (detail). Plain weave cotton, embroidered in the Broad Line style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 56. 101 x 72,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP RT-1422).
Fringed short poncho (detail). Plain weave cotton, embroidered in the Broad Line style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 421, object Nº 56. 101 x 72,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP RT-1422).
How the short poncho was worn.
Short poncho with fringes: Big-Eyed Being
This small poncho features an embroidered motif of the feline version of the Big-Eyed Being, positioned in profile and facing forward. Smaller versions of the same figure are found at the end of the tail and the appendage protruding from the chin. On top of the head is another appendage with a severed human head. The image of this being originated in the Chavín culture and its influence is seen in the Paracas culture during both the Cavernas and Necrópolis stages.