Textile Fragment with Skeletal Figure Paracas. Textile Fragment with Skeletal Figure, 100 Cotton, camelid fibers, frag. a: 7 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. ( x cm). The backward-bent pose of this skeletal figure with long, streaming hair and a fan or knife in its hand is associated with sacrificial victims and death. At the throat, a square-shaped wound suggests a decapitation. Alternatively, the figure has been interpreted as the seminal being of a mythic transformation sequence in which supernatural beings evolve into more complex, composite figures such as the Plant Beings seen nea
Textile Fragment with Skeletal Figure Paracas. Textile Fragment with Skeletal Figure, 100 Cotton, camelid fibers, frag. a: 7 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. ( x cm). The backward-bent pose of this skeletal figure with long, streaming hair and a fan or knife in its hand is associated with sacrificial victims and death. At the throat, a square-shaped wound suggests a decapitation. Alternatively, the figure has been interpreted as the seminal being of a mythic transformation sequence in which supernatural beings evolve into more complex, composite figures such as the Plant Beings seen nearby. Arts of the Americas 100
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