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
Rod or “tomb indicator”. Wood. 130 x 2,4 cm (INC-MNAAHP, MO-5622).
Rod or “tomb indicator”. Wood, feathers and camelid tendon, Mummy Nº 319. 60 x 3,5 cm (INC-MNAAHP, RT-3415).
Ceremonial rods
These rods were stuck into the ground beside each funerary bundle to indicate its location. Similar objects appear as scepters and staffs in the hands of important figures represented on Paracas textiles and on ceramic vessels produced during the initial Nasca stage.