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
Miniature mantle, tunic, hat and feather plume. Plain weave, looping and embroidery in the Linear style; camelid fiber. 24 x 14,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-18255).
A miniature outfit
This miniature outfit consists of a tunic and conical hat sewn onto a mantle, along with a feather headdress plume. The diminutive pieces all have what appear to be monkey figures embroidered in the Linear style. The plume has yellow feathers and a cane handle.