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
Mace. Algarrobo wood and stone. 39 x 8 cm (INC-MNAAHP, MO-7976).
Sacrificial knife. Wood, obsidian and resin. 13,7 x 3,4 cm (INC-MNAAHP, L-14024).
Mace and triangular knife
Maces, sacrificial knives, arrows and other weapons are found in some funerary bundles, suggesting that the deceased person was a warrior, a priest or shaman. These kinds of weapons are also frequently represented on textiles, almost always associated with severed human heads, mythical beings and figures with shamanic features.