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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  231 Culture:  Nasca Description:  bowl, ID number missing, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase. Iconographic Features:  horizontally drawn Jagged-Staff God (Proulx 2007) or Zackenstab-Dämon (Seler 1923) depicted with Rayed Face head type, human body, and crossed legs. It holds jagged rays in its two hands. Association with serpents, jagged serpents (with feline claws), and tocapu-ish signs (spirals).

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  232 Culture:  Nasca Description:  vase, redrawn after Schlesier 1959. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase. Iconographic Features:  horizontally drawn Jagged-Staff God (Proulx 2007) or Zackenstab-Dämon (Seler 1923) depicted with human head, human body, and crossed legs. It holds jagged rays in its two hands and wears a forehead ornament. Association with checkerboard motif (shields ?). Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 231

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  234 Culture:  Nasca Description:  vase, C-12728, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase. Iconographic Features:  horizontally drawn Jagged-Staff God (Proulx 2007) or Zackenstab-Dämon (Seler 1923) depicted with Rayed Face head type, human body, and crossed legs. It holds jagged rays in its two hands. Association with spirals. The panel below shows the heads of women (?). They are probably done by using a stencil, because they look nearly identical. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 231, 232, 233

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  260 Culture:  Nasca Description:  ceramic cup bowl, Nasca Valley, C-11931, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period 5 (EIP 5), Nasca 5 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Feline Face with four hands coming out of two sleeves. It is depicted in frontal view holding a club (left side). Extended tongue terminates in a feline head. Jagged chamber-like extrusions contain processions of men who are holding beakers. Beneath five men with beakers are portrayed surrounding a two large vessel (with corn beer (chicha)?). Beneath the sleeves of the main figure four men holding beakers appear.

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  281 Culture:  Nasca Description:  effigy vessel, C-12439, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Feline Face and Surrounded Head (Proulx 2007, 112) as motifs on the wall of an architectural structure. Feline Face consists of a feline head and three arms holding a club, a spear and a trophy head. Surrounded Head consists of a face framed by peppers. Interpretation of both supernatural beings as celestial bodies. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 260

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  282 Culture:  Nasca Description:  bottle, C-60353, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Feline Face consisting of a feline head and three arms. It holds two bloody clubs, jagged rays and a trophy head. On its right a Surrounded Head (Proulx 2007, 112) appears. Association with ducks and tocapu-ish motifs. Interpretation of both supernatural beings as celestial bodies. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 231, 232, 234, 260, 281

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