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Mantle, 'The Paracas Textile', Nazca, Cotton, camelid fiber, 100-300 C.E., Early Intermediate Period, 24 5/8 × 58 11/16 in., 62.5 × 149 cm, afterlife, ceremony, corn, death, decapitated, fabric, funerary, gods, gold, human sacrifice, life cycles, maize, mantle, mummy, needlework, Paracas, rebirth, religious, South American, symbolic, The Paracas Textile