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LARGE PARACAS EMBROIDERED<br />

FRINGE PANEL<br />

PARACAS NECROPOLIS STYLE,<br />

MIDDLE/LATE PARACAS<br />

Ca. 500-200 B. C.<br />

The border from a large mantle in stem stitch<br />

in ocher, dark blue, dark green and black on a<br />

shaded red ground with stylized double-headed<br />

birds, some inverted, and fl anked by grinning<br />

felines and small birds in the fi eld.<br />

55 x 9 cm<br />

Cf. Sawyer, fi g. 115<br />

The woven textiles of the Paracas Necropolis<br />

period, with their rows of repetitive images, might<br />

have been a form of visual communication within<br />

the society, perhaps these embroidered images<br />

functioned as ideograms relaying information<br />

about the Paracas world view.<br />

€ 1 500 – 2 500<br />

*94<br />

PARACAS/PROTO-NAZCA<br />

FRAGMENTS<br />

Ca. 300-100 B. C.<br />

Including a Paracas stem stitch mantle fragment<br />

embroidered in camelid wool in forest green and<br />

black with six seated Supernatural Beings each<br />

with head turned frontally, tails terminating in a<br />

cat’s face with further heads emerging the top of<br />

the Beings’ head, together with a Late Paracas/Proto-Nazca<br />

border with zoomorphic motifs with a<br />

tab fringe in camelid wool and cotton in red, azur<br />

blue, ocher, brown and olive green, the last border<br />

Proto-Nazca fragment with a series of swimming<br />

fi sh in alternating colors in a pastel palette.<br />

Lengths 36 x 9, 39 x 4.4 and 28 x 2 cm<br />

See illustration of two<br />

€ 1 000 – 1 500

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