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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  163
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  jar, drawing after Lavallée 1986.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 4 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Feline Serpent and spiders.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  164
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  double spout vessel, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 3 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Feline Serpent with secondary snakes emanating from the body.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  208
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  effigy vessel, ID number missing, Museo De La Nacion, Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being as motif on the walls of a temple/palace like structure. It is depicted with killer whale body, human body, human arms, and human legs. Killer whale body depicted with Round Faces enclosed. Association with Principal Pair (Ancestral Pair).
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 175 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  216
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  effigy vessel, N. M. 255 Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5/6 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  person of high rank in rich attire wearing an elaborately painted mask and a headdress showing a composite creature. This creature consists of a sea lion body (painted on the back of the dignitary) and a human head, and wears a headdress decorated with capsicum pepper. Its shoulders are replaced by cacti (?). The dignitary holds six spears in his left hand and a trophy head with closed mouth in his right hand. His clothes are covered with trophy heads - some of them with helmets. Each shoulder bears the motif of the Winged Mythical Killer Whale holding trophy heads. Beneath, a human couple (Principal Pair?) and the Feline Serpent are portrayed.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 163, 164, 208 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  370
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  effigy vessel (detail), N. M. 255 Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5/6 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  erotic scene.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 163, 164, 208, 216 

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