Crimson threads trace a snail kite’s talons gripping a coiled serpent, its prey half-hidden beneath a spiral shell. This fragment suggests Moche weavers encoded ecological balance into ceremonial textiles—what other relationships might unfold in its lost, larger pattern?

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