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
Funerary mantle. Double-cloth and plain weave; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 349, object Nº 1. 324 x 150 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1451).
Funerary mantle (detail). Double-cloth and plain weave; camelid fiber. Mummy Nº 349, object Nº 1. 324 x 150 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-1451).
Double-cloth plain weave.
Illustration. Mantle’s central motif.
Mantle: Big-Eyed Being
This funerary mantle is one of the few Paracas textiles made with the double-cloth technique, in which the decorative elements were woven into the fabric itself. Both sides have the same designs, but in the opposite background and motif colors. The central motif is the Big-Eyed Being, shown in profile and with feline attributes. Its long serrated tail ends in a severed human head, and in its hands it holds triangular knives or human heads hanging from cords. It is accompanied by two-headed birds and smaller versions of itself.