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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  154 Culture:  Nasca Description:  Brooklyn Museum Mantle, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 2/3 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Deity-impersonator wearing pampas cat skin headdress (orange) and holding Bicephalic Serpent (BS-2) with secondary feline heads (grey) attached to the body. BS-2 is showed towering above the central figure. Association with vegetation.

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  249 Culture:  Nasca Description:  effigy vessel, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 6 Phase. Iconographic Features:  modeled example of a late Effigy Harvester (Proulx 2007, 93) holding trophy head. It is depicted with snake arms (snakes are painted on arms). It wears a conical hat showing the Rayed Face whose face is painted with dots imitating the surface of a cob of maize. The Harvester is shown in a seated position and has Heads Surrounded by Trophy Heads (HST) painted on its body. The figure’s back covers the representation of an elaborated version of the Face Being with Snake Rays. Face Being with Snake Rays wears a headdress that shows a tricephalic serpent (BS-2 ?) symbolizing the rainbow. A nearly identical being is portrayed on a cup bowl from burial 2 of Wayurí, Río Grande de Nasca, excavated by Tello in 1927. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 154

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