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Paracas textile information


Paracas textile
MaterialWool and cotton
Created300–200 BCE
DiscoveredPeru
Present locationBritish Museum, London
Nasca. Mantle (Detail of "The Paracas Textile")Brooklyn Museum
Nasca. Mantle ("The Paracas Textile"), 100-300 C.E. Cotton, camelid fiber, textile: Brooklyn Museum
Detail of one shaman showing knife and head
The Museo Regional de Ica display both these skulls and the textiles

The Paracas textiles were found at a necropolis in Peru in the 1920s. The necropolis held 420 bodies who had been mummified and wrapped in embroidered textiles of the Paracas culture in 200–300 BCE.[1] The examples in the British Museum show flying shamans who hold severed heads by their hair.[1]

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