3126) "Paracas Textiles/Textile Art of Paracas" Peru: "Riqueza y Orgullo del Peru” ("Wealth and Pride of Peru Coin Series"): A 1 (One) Sol Coin showcases the unique funerary Textile Work/Art: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2013:
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru in 2010 unveiled the design for one-sol coins, in its numismatic series called “Riqueza y Orgullo del Peru” ("Wealth and Pride of Peru").
The "Wealth and Pride of Peru" series first began in 2010 with the issue of the Golden Tumi as its motif.
Successive coins were issued such as the Karajia Sarcophagi, the Estela de Raimondi, the Chullupas of Sillustani, Machu Picchu, the Monastery of Santa Catalina, the Saywite Stone, the Great Pajaten, the Real Felipe Fortress, and the Temple of Vilcashuamán, and the Ruins/Monolith of Kuntur Wasi.
The Coins launched in this one-sol series included 26 unique designs reflecting Peru’s history and traditions.
Peru’s Central Bank has issued a new sol coin featuring the "Paracas Textiles" in 2013 in its Wealth and Pride series of collectors’ coins.
The Paracas textiles were found at a necropolis in Peru in the 1920s.
The necropolis held 420 bodies who had been mummified and wrapped in embroidered textiles of the Paracas culture in 200–300 BCE.
Some examples show flying shamans who hold severed heads by their hair.
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These textiles were made by South American people over a thousand years before the rise of the Inca.
They are brightly coloured and show evidence of both a design and a style. The subject of these images are supernatural creatures or shamans who use their hands to hold severed human heads whilst their wings transport them like birds. These could be intended to represent being carried to the next world by spirits or that these figures represent the spirits themselves.
The people who created these textiles had a complex society. There is evidence of pottery, fishing, and farming. There were craftspeople who could make knives from obsidian, jewellery from gold as well as understanding all the complexities of weaving.
The textiles were made from wool and cotton. The wool is thought to have come from Alpaca or Llama. They had been dyed with natural dyes which unusually had kept their colour after over 2,000 years. The preservation of the colours is attributed to the dry conditions combined with the lack of damage which would usually have been caused by sunlight.
These textiles were used to wrap the bodies of the dead.
These cloths were as long as 100 feet (34 metres) and would have required a significant organisation of a number of people to construct. The bodies were found in groups of 40 or 50 as if they were family vaults which had been used by several generations.
One of the unusual qualities of the skulls that were found is that many of them had been deformed in unusual ways. This distortion is achieved by attaching boards and weights to the skull as it grows.
Other distortions are due to the process of trepanning which as where holes were drilled into the skulls of living people.
Inspection shows that these holes had healed and shows that the patients did not die when this process was applied.
Museums in Peru like the Museo Regional de Ica display both these skulls and the textiles that were found around them.
Provenance:
The necropolis on the Paracas Peninsula was discovered in the 1920s.
On 25.10.1927, the first of hundreds of ceremonial mummified bundle burials were discovered. One necropolis that contained corpses which sat in baskets.
Around each of the bodies were large textiles that included large woven cotton that was decorated with woollen embroidery.
A purpose-built museum was built near Paracas where, put on display were over 180 textiles. The preservation of these had been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Commemorative Coin:
Inscribed towards the centre left periphery is the inscription - "ARTE TEXTIL PARACAS. S. V a.C - S. I d.C".
Vertically engraved is seen "1 NEUVO SOL".
The specifications of the One Sol Coin are:
Country of issue: Republic of Peru; Coin Series Theme: "Riqueza y Orgullo del Peru” ("Wealth and Pride of Peru Coin Series"); Coin Theme: "Paracas Textile"; Coin Quality: Circulation Commemorative Coin; Date/Year of Coin issue: 2013; Denomination of Coin: 1 (One Nuevo Sol); Metal Composition: Nickel-brass; Weight: 7.32 grams; Diameter/Size: 25.5 mm; Thickness: 1.9 mm; Minted By: National Mint House; Mint Mark: LIMA; Mintage: 10.00 Million pieces; Shape: Round; Technique: Milled; Orientation/Coin alignment: ↑↓; Edge: Reeded.
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