20.2
Female "Occulate Being" with inverted "fetus" shown inside. The inverted position of the internal figure replicates the desired "presentation" for a baby about to be born. Repetition of the inverted form may have been a metaphor for successive generations, those yet to be born. Adapted and redrawn from Paul (1986).
Item record
Chapter
Ch. 20: Mothers and Others: Female Images and Life Cycle Rituals in the Southern Andes
Item type
Drawing
Creator
Geographic terms
Andean South America
Paracas
Temporal terms
Early Intermediate Period (EIP)
Reuse
Copyright holder
JoEllen Burkholder
Recommended citation
Isbell, William H.; Uribe, Mauricio I.; Tiballi, Anne; Edward P. Zegarra, 2018, "Visual database", https://doi.org/10.25346/S6/1B33FN.