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
Turban-headband. Cross-knit looping; camelid fiber. 34 x 3 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-5174)
Unku-tunic. Plain weave and embroidery; camelid fiber. 8 x 9 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-2180)
Short poncho. Plain weave and embroidery; camelid fiber. 4,5 x 4,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-5160)
Loincloth. Plain weave and embroidery; camelid fiber. 8 x 5 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-19962)
Mantle. Plain weave and embroidery; camelid fiber. 10 x 6,5 cm (INC-MNAAP, RT-4026)
A miniature outfit
This miniature outfit consists of five garments found inside the same funerary bundle. The turban-headband, made with the looping technique, is decorated with two-headed intertwined serpents in alternating colors. In contrast, the mantle, loincloth, tunic and short poncho are all loom-woven and feature embroidered stylized animal figures and geometric motifs.