20.3

Color block figures from Paracas textiles. (a) The larger figure with a smaller one carried on its back is outwardly of indeterminate sex but may represent a maternal image; (b) the weapon-bearing, loin cloth-wearing figure is usually referred to as a warrior and assumed therefore to be male; (c) the figure with a contorted upper body, severed head, and tumi knife has been referred to as a shaman, priest, or "sacrificer" and also assumed to be male. All figures adapted and redrawn from photographs. (a) and (b) from Lumbreras, Lavalle, and Lang (1979a); (c) from British Museum registry 1954,05.563, colors approximate.