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Sexual interaction scenes with Mochica ancestral woman

Room E2, Vitrine E30


Ceramic
Peruvian Northern Coast
Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD)
ML004275, ML004278, ML004330, ML004351, ML004353.

From the characteristics of her attire, particularly the necklace of beads and the way in which her hair is arranged in two braids, we can deduce that the woman at the center of these scenes is an ancestor of Mochica society. She is flanked by men and women who are smaller in stature, some of whom are cadaverous, while others are not, who are stimulating her sexually.

In one of the scenes, the woman is being embraced by a man, who grips her by the chin, in a gesture alluding to the connection between the different worlds.