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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  77 Culture:  Nasca Description:  collared jar, ID missing, Kemper Sammlung. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5. Iconographic Features:  Feline Man (left) characterized by a human body and the head of a feline (with mouth mask). He is depicted with hands outstreched to the sides and holding a trophy head and a club. On the left, an anthropomorphic being with wings on its back. It holds a club.

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  189 Culture:  Nasca Description:  large chicha (?) ritual vessel, private collection, redrawn after Zarate, Morales 1983, colored by Clados after Culturas precolombinas: Nazca, Lima 1986. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 2/3 Phase. Iconographic Features:  complex iconographic scene depicting a mythical combat between supernatural beings and humans. A net surrounded by several supernatural beings (including BMB-4, Feline Hawk, Masked Mythical Being, Anthropomorphic Being with Jagged Tail) is depicted in the centre of the painting. The Masked Mythical Being (right of centre) is grasping the hair of a warrior (with two spears in his hand). Feline Man holding a fan appears at the upper right. To his right appears a human almost 'skeletonized', to his left a trophy head hanging on a carrying cord. To express the third dimension the supernatural beings are organized on three ground lines.

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  327 Culture:  Nasca Description:  effigy vessel, drawing after Disselhoff 1981, 226. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 1. Iconographic Features:  Feline Man holding club and trophy head.

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