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Late Nasca face-neck jars depicting females, most in active poses. (a) A woman in a dark dress carries a bundle of wood suspended from a tumpline across her forehead and leading a white camelid, perhaps to a sacrificial offering (drawn from photo by Proulx 2006:Plate 36, colors approximate); (b) a woman in a white dress, red facial decoration, and fish-scale markings on her arms rests with legs flexed while carrying two anthropomorphic figures (babies?) on her back (drawn from photo by Proulx 2006, colors approximate); (c) this example is less active than the others illustrated but wears a mantle with an elaborate depiction of a mythical creature (adapted and redrawn from Proulx 2004); (d) this example displays strings of peppers or legume pods perhaps in the act of making an offering (drawn from photo of Arthur M. Sackler collection accession N339, published by Katz 2004, colors approximate).