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
Headdress ornament. Hammered and embossed; gold-copperalloy; Mummy Nº 157, object Nº 410. 15,2 x 4,3 cm (INC-MNAAHP, M-6607)
Tweezers. Hammered and embossed; gold-copper alloy. 3,4 cm (diámetro) (INC-MNAAHP, M-6584)
Metal offerings
This metal “feather” ornament resembles the yellow feathers that often adorn headdresses found on the ‘false heads’ of funerary bundles. Other pieces, such as these tweezers shaped like scallop shells, were found in the folds of the textile offerings.