Mantos funerarios de Paracas
Subtitle: ofrendas para la vida = Paracas funerary mantles : offerings for life
By: organizan Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú ; auspician Ilustra Municipalidad de Santiago, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Ley de Donaciones Culturales ; colaboradora, Embajada del Perú en Chile ; edición general, José Berenguer Rodríguez, Carole Sinclaire Aguirre
Contributors: Peru. Ministerio de Cultura; Peru. Embajada (Chile); Santiago (Chile); Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino; Minera Escondida Ltda; Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (Chile)
Publisher: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santiago de Chile
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789562430722
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Exhibitions; Civilization
Other 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.
Notes: Exhibition catalog.

At head of title: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Minera Escondida operada por BHP Billiton presentan.

Includes bibliographical references (page 94).

Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Who were the Paracas? = ¿Quiénes fueron los Paracas?; title: The Wari Kayán cemetery and its discoverer = El cementerio de Wari Kayán y su descubridor; title: What is a funerary bundle? = ¿En qué consiste un fardo funerario?; title: Reading the images. Severed heads, trophy heads = ¿Cómo leer las imágenes? Cabezas cortadas, cabezas trofeo; title: Paracas textile art: three styles of embroidery attire of a Paraca chief = El arte textil Paracas: tres estilos de bordado, el traje de un jefe Paraca; title: Opening of a funeral bundle from the necropolis of Wari Kayán = Apertura de un fardo funerario de la necrópolis de Wari Kayán; title: Mantles for the afterlife = Mantos para la otra vida.