The Moche textile fragment stitches a snail kite mid-strike above a coiled serpent and spiral shell, their forms locked in ochre and crimson wool. This rare survivor of catastrophic floods suggests how ritual imagery once draped power—what other creatures might have flanked this scene before the waters rose?

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