| Site: Nasca | | Clados Number: 189 | | Culture: Nasca | | Description: large chicha (?) ritual vessel, private collection, redrawn after Zarate, Morales 1983, colored by Clados after Culturas precolombinas: Nazca, Lima 1986. | | Chronological Era: Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 2/3 Phase. | | Iconographic Features: complex iconographic scene depicting a mythical combat between supernatural beings and humans. A net surrounded by several supernatural beings (including BMB-4, Feline Hawk, Masked Mythical Being, Anthropomorphic Being with Jagged Tail) is depicted in the centre of the painting. The Masked Mythical Being (right of centre) is grasping the hair of a warrior (with two spears in his hand). Feline Man holding a fan appears at the upper right. To his right appears a human almost 'skeletonized', to his left a trophy head hanging on a carrying cord. To express the third dimension the supernatural beings are organized on three ground lines. | |
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