Indigo threads trace a snail kite’s talons poised above a coiled serpent and a spiraled snail. The flood-scarred weave suggests these creatures once adorned a mantle draped across shoulders now lost to time.

What does the bird’s stillness reveal about Moche views of predator and prey?
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