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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  206
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  effigy vessel, ID number missing, Museo Larco Herrera, Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 4 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being depicted with killer whale body, human arms and human legs. Killer whale body depicted with trophy heads enclosed. A loincloth indicates clothing. The Killer Whale Mythical Being holds a trophy head and a knife with obsidian blade. Not identical to Feline Killer Whale.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  207
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  cup bowl, ID number missing, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being depicted with killer whale body, human body, human arms (indicated by sleeves) and human legs. Killer whale body depicted with drops of blood enclosed.

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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:  209
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  vase, ID number missing, location unknown.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being depicted with killer whale body and human body. Harpoons attached to the upper and lower jaw. Killer whale body depicted with capsicum pepper (ají) enclosed. Association with Lima Interlocking motif that appears in the upper panel.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 207, 208 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  210
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  tomb 128, Los Médanos, Kopara double-spout-and-bridge bottle, sp. 1/1737, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being depicted with killer whale body, human body (indicated by tunic and loincloth), human arms, and human legs. Killer whale body depicted with capsicum pepper (ají) enclosed. The Killer Whale Mythical Being holds capsicum pepper (ají) and a jagged ray.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  211
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  effigy vessel, ID number missing, Göteborg Ethnografiska Museet.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being as motif on the tunic of a (shouting?) nobleman. It is depicted with killer whale body and human arms. A striped tunic indicates a human torso. Hair hanks are attached to the border of the killer whale body associating the creature with war and harvest. It is surrounded by fishes indicating water. Patricia Lyon (1978:126) argued that the Killer Whale Mythical Being was not really meant to represent the killer whale per se but a "supernatural being who has in its charge all water creatures and who is in a position to provide rich fishing to those who please it and destroy those who do not" ("Master" or "Mistress" of Fishes).
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 206, 207, 208, 209, 210 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  212
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  drum, ID number missing, Banco Central de Reserva, Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Killer Whale Mythical Being (grey) and Wari Stinger Animal (?) (yellow). They are surrounded by banded spears, carrying cords, and loincloths indicating a battlefield. The Wari Stinger Animal is depicted with feline head (?), squared jaws, killer whale (?) body, jaguar forelegs, and human legs. Killer whale body of the Wari Stinger Animal depicted with fishes enclosed. A stinger/tail is attached to the bifurcated tail. Two trophy heads are grasped by the Wari Stinger Animal.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  213
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  chicha (?) ritual vessel, C-35090, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  one of the most complex Nasca 7 scenes depicting two Killer Whale Mythical Beings and the Wari Stinger Animal (right below). The head of the Killer Whale Mythical Beings is identical to the head of the Wari Stinger Animal (Mythical Monkey head type). Killer whale bodies enclose fishes. Wari Stinger Animal depicted with doubled fish tail. A human (indicated by head and arm) is devoured in the jaws of a (Mythical Monkey head type) Rayed Face/decapitated Mythical Monkey head which itself is devoured by the Wari Stinger Animal. The top of the vessel is in form of a ritual court. Its inner walls are decorated with trophy heads.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  214
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  effigy vessel, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  nobleman wearing Killer Whale Mythical Being headdress. His tunic shows One-Eyed Rayed Faces, Mythical Monkey Head Type Rayed Faces, and Mask Type Rayed Faces.

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  215
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  double-spout-and-bridge bottle in form of a sea turtle lying on its back, N. M. 218 Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  two drawings of the Killer Whale Mythical Being (on the underside of the vessel). It is depicted with killer whale body, human arms, and human legs. A loincloth indicates a human body. It is surrounded by capsicum pepper (ají) and fishes swimming alongside. The Killer Whale Being holds a spear thrower (?). It is depicted with Mythical Monkey head type. Helmut Schindler (2000, 66) considers the Killer Whale Being as shark-deity.

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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:  Paracas
Clados Number:  217
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  mantle border, ID number missing, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP) 2.
Iconographic Features:  Feline Killer Whale depicted with killer whale body, human body with arms and legs, and a human/feline head to which killer whale (?) jaws are attached. Feline Killer Whale holds a knife (with black obsidian blade) and a trophy head. Another trophy head is attached to the waist.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 218, 219, 220 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  218
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  double spout bottle, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 2 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Feline Killer Whale depicted with killer whale body, human arms, and human legs. A loincloth and sleeves indicate a human body. Feline Killer Whale holds a bloody club.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 217, 219, 220 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  219
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  double spout bottle, ID number missing, The Art Institute of Chicago.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 2 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Feline Killer Whale depicted with killer whale body, human arms, and human legs. Killer whale body depicted with Spondylus shell pectorals enclosed. Feline Killer Whale holds a bloody club.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 217, 218, 220 

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Site:  Nasca
Clados Number:  225
Culture:  Nasca
Description:  vase portraying nobleman, drawing after Lavalle 1986, 143.
Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase.
Iconographic Features:  Bird Mythical Being 9 (BMB-9), a Late Nasca bird mythical being as motif on the tunic of the man. It is depicted with Rayed Feline Face Bloody Mouth head type, human body with legs, wings, and tail. Feathers replaced by volute rays. BMB-9 is depicted in bird’s-eye view and might be a Nasca 7 version of Feline Hawk or BMB-5.
Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 101, 110 

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