Unknown Artist
This year in DailyArt we want to present more non-European and non-US art. So today it is time for a man's mantle created close to the town of Paracas in what is now Peru. This magnificent mantle displays 55 “bird impersonator” figures with elaborate wings, fringed capes, headdresses, and snakes, carrying ceremonial staffs and trophy heads. The colors (crimson, pink, blue, dark green, yellow, and grayish green) are used in four different combinations of color in the figures. Several figures within the border were never fully completed. Matching figures on a skirt that belongs with the mantle were also left unfinished, with only their outlines rendered in gold thread, and a solidly embroidered gold border setting off their detailed contours.
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P.S. If you're curious to see more Peruvian art, check out ancient erotic art from the Museo Larco in Lima.