Music in the world of the ancestors

Room 5, Vitrine 40

• In these sculptural clay bottles, cadaverous male figures wear headdresses and decorative tunics, and in some cases large ear adornments, indicating their high social status.
• These figures are shown playing an instrument. Most of them are playing panpipes, an instrument played in pairs, the complementary sounds of which propitiate contact between the earthly world (Kay Pacha) and the world of the dead (Uku Pacha).
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004328, ML004336, ML004347.

ML004336

ML004336