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
Mantle: Two-headed animal figures
Funerary mantle. Plain weave, cross-knit looping and embroidery in the Block Color style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 310, object Nº 26. 277,5 x 145 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1532)
Mantle’s central motif
Funerary mantle (detail). Plain weave, cross-knit looping and embroidery in the Block Color style; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 310, object Nº 26. 277,5 x 145 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1532)
Embroidery in the Block
How the mantle was worn
Mantle: Two-headed animal figures
This mantle has 144 figures, all embroidered in the Block Color style. The primary motif is an animal with two feline heads and large whiskers, and two human heads with loose hair hanging from its chin. The spiked body is suggestive of an insect, a reptile or the bristling hide of a fox. This is one of the ten embroidered mantles that was found inside the funerary bundle recreated in this exhibition.