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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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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  226 Culture:  Nasca Description:  effigy vessel portraying wounded warrior chewing coca, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Bird Mythical Being 9 (BMB-9) as motif on the mantle of the warrior. 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. He is grasping two One-Eyed Rayed Faces by their tongues, a gesture that indicates fighting. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 225

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  227 Culture:  Nasca Description:  effigy vessel portraying warrior holding trophy head, C-54292, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase. Iconographic Features:  two different colour versions of the Bird Mythical Being 9 (BMB-9) as motif on the mantle of the warrior. BMB-9 is depicted with Rayed Feline Face Bloody Mouth head type, human legs, wings, and cat (?) tail. Feathers replaced by rays. BMB-9 is depicted in bird’s-eye view. Additional volute rays are attached to the mouth mask. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 225, 226

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  228 Culture:  Nasca Description:  effigy vessel portraying warrior holding trophy head, ID number missing, Museo de la Nacion, Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase. Iconographic Features:  two different colour versions of the Bird Mythical Being 9 (BMB-9) as motif on the mantle of the warrior. BMB-9 is depicted with Rayed Feline Face head type, human arms, human legs, wings, and cat (?) tail. Feathers replaced by rays. BMB-9 is depicted in bird’s-eye view. It holds jagged staffs. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 225, 226, 227

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  229 Culture:  Nasca Description:  double-spout-and bridge bottle, ID number missing, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 7 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Bird Mythical Being 9 (BMB-9) depicted with Rayed Feline Face head type, human body, human arms and legs, wings, and tail. Feathers of the wings and the tail replaced by rays. BMB-9 is depicted in bird’s-eye view. Attached to the sleeve of the left arm is a One-Eyed Rayed Face, maybe shown in the moment of attacking BMB-9. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 225, 226, 227, 228

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Site:  Nasca Clados Number:  230 Culture:  Nasca Description:  vase, C-60288, M.N.A.A.H.-Lima. Chronological Era:  Early Intermediate Period (EIP), Nasca 5/6 Phase. Iconographic Features:  Bird Mythical Being 9 (BMB-9) depicted with Rayed Feline Face head type, human body, human arms (with claws), human body and legs, and a wing. Wing is covered by trophy head. Feathers replaced by spears. BMB-9 is depicted devouring a human whose legs are still visible. Related Themes:  Click link to see related item(s) CL 225, 226, 227, 228, 229

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