Site: Nasca | Clados Number: 262 | Culture: Nasca | Description: vessel, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. | Chronological Era: Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase. | Iconographic Features: Late Effigy Harvester (Proulx 2007, 93) depicted with human body, human arms and legs. It holds peppers and wears a conical hat and a collar made of pepinos. Maize attached to the hat. Arms depicted with yam beans enclosed. Snakelike streamer emerges from the mouth, terminating in a feline head which in turn bifurcates into two branches, each containing warriors with clubs and in turn terminating in human heads. Bubble-like extrusions filled with birds emerge from the human heads. Spotted facial painting, eye-markings in the shape of maize. Corn cobs replaced by trophy heads. | |
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