Title: Mantos funerarios de Paracas
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.
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Exhibitions, Civilization
Places: Peru, Paracas (Peru), Paracas