| 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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