Elite ancestors
Room 5, Vitrine 39
• The characteristics of their headdress or crown identify the cadaverous figures in these scenes as elite ancestors who, in the world of the dead, retain the high social status they enjoyed in life.
• The ancestor is flanked by smaller men and women, some of whom are depicted as cadaverous, while others are not.
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004349, ML004323, ML004307.
ML004349