Virtual Member Lecture: How to Read Nazca Ceramics

Join Andrew Hamilton, associate curator, Arts of the Americas, as he discusses how to read Nazca ceramics. Originating in the Andes in what is now Peru, these ancient ceramics are decorated with symbolic and pictorial imagery that forms a complex and cohesive narrative.

Google Street View of the hill that the cat geoglyph was discovered on:
https://tinyurl.com/yxzw3933

The Paracas embroidered mantel conserved by the Museo Larco:
https://www.museolarco.org/en/exhibition/permanent-exhibition/masterpieces/paracas-mantle/

Videos featuring Andrés Rolando Calle Benavides (“Tobi”):

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