Site: Nasca | Clados Number: 67 | Culture: Nasca | Description: effigy vase, drawing after Schlesier 1959, Abb. 215. | Chronological Era: Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7. | Iconographic Features: Seated Anthropomorphic Being with Face Joints touching its nose and head. Elbows and knees replaced by human faces (face joints). Plant motif covers the front of the body. Nude woman (yellow) sits on the head. Side and back of the body show the representations of a dead woman (?), a nude man, and men carrying a trumpet. A rattle, a drum, carrying cords, plants and fishes, probably offerings, are dispersed between the figures. | |
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