Detail of embroidered funerary cloak, Parakas Culture, Peru (100 BCE-200 CE). Museo Chilean de Arte Precolombino. The figures depict humans with the attributes of killer whales, such as large jaws and dorsal fins.
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Detail of embroidered funerary cloak, Parakas Culture, Peru (100 BCE-200 CE). Museo Chilean de Arte Precolombino.jpg (211.7 КБ) 1430 просмотров
Camelid fiber and cotton embroidered mantle with motif of warriors holding staffs with two hanging severed heads each [detail]. Early Nazca style, Ica, Peru, ca. 1st-5th c. AD..jpg (1.66 МБ) 1391 просмотр
A Taíno stone axe recently displayed in a new exposition, it depicts the Hispaniolan monkey an animal that has been extinct since around the European colonization of the island.jpg (1.01 МБ) 1354 просмотра
Late classic Remojadas style ceramic head from Veracruz, Mexico, ca. 600-800 AD. American Museum of Natural History collection.jpg (740.62 КБ) 1298 просмотров
A Moche pottery depicting a warrior duck with club and shield. 100-700 CE, now housed at the Museo Huacas de Moche in Peru.jpg (38.87 КБ) 1253 просмотра