Contributions

  • Peru. Ministerio de Cultura - Contributor
  • Peru. Embajada (Chile) - Contributor
  • Santiago (Chile) - Contributor
  • Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino - Contributor
  • Minera Escondida Ltda - Contributor
and 1 more
  • Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (Chile) - Contributor

Publication

2015 - Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Language

Spanish

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCGT3239.P37 M36 2015

Alternate Titles

  • Paracas funerary mantles - offerings for life

Description

Exhibition of 52 archaeological objects, all belonging to the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru (MNAAHP). Of them, nearly half are textile parts from the Paracas Necropolis period (100 BC - 200 ad) and were found at Wari Kayán cemetery, a vast and sandy area of located on the seafront, of the arid peninsula of Paracas. The exhibition includes "uncus" or tunics, short ponchos, turbans, ribbons, belts, skirts and other textiles, but also nine ceramic of the early period of the neighboring society Nasca -or early Nasca (1-200 a.d.) ?, three pottery vessels of style Topará, 10 metal ornaments, two tombs indicator rods, a fan, a shell necklace, a mallet, a knife, a bone flute and other offerings, including eight textile garments in miniature. There is no doubt; in any case, that the most impressive objects are eight monumental funerary mantles, all richly decorated.

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