ocr: WILDCAT AND SERPENT N EXCAVATION at the ruined town of Pashash, on the Pacific A slopes of the Andes in northern Peru, South America, uncovered a burial site beneath a temple, dated about AD 500.As well as a body, the site contained ornamental pins and items used in weaving, suggesting that this was the tomb of a nobleman's wife. This effigy vessel was placed in the tomb as an offering. It has the body of a snake and the head and forelegs of a cat. Such effigies often appear in the pottery of this culture, which never represented snakes in their true form. No similar objects have been discover ...
