WEAVE ROBBERY PARACAS
REGIONAL MUSEUM OF ICA


THEY ROB MANTLES of the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICA "Adolph Bermúdez Jenkins"

Report N° 077-2004-INC-DRCI-MRI-D

N° MRI-DB-47
Object: Uncu
Cultural Connection: Wari
Description: Weave elaborated with wool fiber. Made up of two long cloth united to form the tunica by the sides, with exception of the openings left by the sides for the arms and to the center in the superior part for the head.

Made by means of the tecnica of the carpet. The mativos consist of streamlined representations of mazorcas of maiz, heads of birds, distributed heads of felines and stepped designs in the longitudinal panels in all the article.

In each cloth that conforms unco or tunica a wide one with designs in diverse colors appears frank (red, pink, brown, ocher clear brown beige and). To each side of this wide strip there is a brown strip but it narrows, following towards the sides by where another strip is united the flanks of the tunica but it even narrows with such designs that the two wide strips that the article presents/displays.

In the central union of both cloth, in the end a flower embroidered right at the beginning of the opening for the head appears, in each face of the tunica.

Measures:

Length: 107 cm.
Wide: 103 cm.
Of shoulder to shoulder: 116 cm.

Other aspects:

His fotografia fu published as the figure N° 8 in the pagina N° 169 of I articulate: "Textile from the Nasca Valley AT the Time of the fall of the Huari Empire" by Ann Pollard Rowe in the conference on Andean textiles of junius Bird made in the year 1986). In this I articulate narrates a brief history on, talking about that the tunica was part of two weave groups found in the Property Grande Mount, in the low part of the Great Rio.

This piece is in so badly been of conservation that under management of the museum profit its restoration by two North American conservatives Grace Katterman and Nanette Skov, who made it between the years of 1996 and 1999 during his estadia in this Museum.

As product of its restoration the tunica presents/displays a inner plating of brown color


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Report N° 077-2004-INC-DRCI-MRI-D

N° of inventory:MRI-00001-02
Other numeros: MRI-DB-44. MNAA-01168 (Seville, 1929-51)
Object: Funeral mantle
Cultural Filicion: Paracas Necropolis
Description: Weave of rectangular form elaborated with fibers of cotton and wool. Made up of a central cloth and two sidebands, around which prsenta flecos of threads of the colors in which the mantle has been woven. The decoration appears by means of embroidered designs. It presents/displays colors mainly red and black and demas yellow and green.

The main design in style to linear is a zoomorfo being (to be oculado) bicefalo with serpentiforme body and in each end it presents/displays a head and a tail. The secondary designs are but small felines and streamlined birds much.

The central cloth presents/displays the main design before mentioned accompanied by secondary in the each one of cincuentaiun (51) altered pictures of black bottom with the pictures of red bottom without design, had all in checkerboard form.

Each sideband such presents/displays repeated designs but in a size greater than in the central cloth also on bottom of red color.

Measures:

Length: 245 cm.
Stop: 131 cm.

Other aspects:

Form leaves from one of the descubirtos funeral fardos by Julio C. Tello in Hill Colorado, Pracas, Pisco.

This mantle tranferido or was entragado by the National Museum of Arqueologia Antropologia of Lima for safekeeping of the Museum by means of Resolution Directorial N° 002558ª of the 16 of Novienbre of year 1973. Their codigos of registry in the National Museum of Antropologia and Arqueologia were: MNAA01168 (Seville, 1929-51).

Was sewing to the fabric of the bastidos ones on which exhibia, having be this assembly same with which he was traido of the National Museum of Lima.


Report N° 077-2004-INC-DRCI-MRI-D

N° of inventory:MRI-00037-02
Other numeros: MRI-DB-43. MNAA-253-5 (23626)
Object: Funeral mantle
Cultural Filicion: Paracas Necropolis
Description: Weave of rectangular form elaborated with fibers of cotton and wool. Made up of a central cloth brown color, two lateral strips and 142 quadrangular flecos.

All the mantle presents/displays decoration embroidered with a main design is repeated in all the mantle, and is the representation of a being of diverse zoomorfos characteristics, simultaneously each representation of this design presents/displays combinacion of colors in series.

The secondary design appears in the flecos like a feline head that repeats itself with a sequence of altered colors.

The central cloth presents/displays distributed pictures or panels as dark checkerboard in colors brown clear and brown alternate and the main design is in seventy (70) of the pictures of bottom of dark brown color, appearing the design with same combinacion of colors arranged in form diagonal.

The lateral strips obandas in dark brown bottom also presents/displays the same main design with different combinations from colors repeated in certain sequence.

The flecos (142) present/display each one the secondary design of the head of streamlined feline.

Measures:

Length: 275 cm.
Wide: 137 cm.

Other aspects:

This mantle is especimen N° 5 of fardo N° 253 descubirtos by Julio C. Tello in Hill Colorado, Pracas, Pisco.

As product of its restoration were cisido to a color fabric sour cherry that does the times of support. Which was held with some puntadas to the fabric of the frame on which exhibia.

This weave was recovered by preservative Mrs. Carmen Thays in 2001, after uana campaign publishes that it made the Museum with aim collect bottoms to finance the works. What profit with the collaboration of local settlers asi like of the foreign visitors, standing out who greater colaboiracion was the one of the Bank of Credito of the Peru.

This mantle was transferred or entrgado by the National Museum of Arqueologia of Lima for safekeeping of the Museum By means of N° Resolution 002355Å of the 16 of November of 1973, its codigos of registry in the National Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology they were: MNAA 253-5(23626).


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DETAIL OF THE MANTLE


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