Mantos funerarios de Paracas : ofrendas para la vida = Paracas funerary mantles : offerings for life / 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berenguer R., José, editor.

Sinclaire Aguirre, Carole, editor.

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, issuing body, host institution.

Peru. Ministerio de Cultura, issuing body.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indian textile fabrics--Peru--Exhibitions.

Indian textile fabrics.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Peru--Paracas--Exhibitions.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Antiquities.

Paracas (Peru)--Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Paracas (Peru).

Peru--Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Peru.

Peru--Paracas.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map

Other Title:

Paracas funerary mantles : offerings for life

Place of Publication:

Santiago de Chile : Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 2015.

Language Note:

Texts in Spanish and English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Who were the Paracas? = ¿Quiénes fueron los Paracas?

The Wari Kayán cemetery and its discoverer = El cementerio de Wari Kayán y su descubridor

What is a funerary bundle? = ¿En qué consiste un fardo funerario?

Reading the images. Severed heads, trophy heads = ¿Cómo leer las imágenes? Cabezas cortadas, cabezas trofeo

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

Opening of a funeral bundle from the necropolis of Wari Kayán = Apertura de un fardo funerario de la necrópolis de Wari Kayán

Mantles for the afterlife = Mantos para la otra vida.

Notes:

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

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from November 26 until June 26, 2016 at the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino in Santiago, Chile.

Open access content.

Includes bibliographical references (page 94)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed May, 2020)

Other Format:

Online version.

ISBN:

9789562430722

9562430723

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access