These vessels are considered funerary offerings that relatives or family deposited with their dead at the time of the burial ceremony.

All urns and vessels belonging to the type, with the exception of a small red slip bowl, belongs to funerary offerings.

Another section of the museum is dedicated to local pre Hispanic ceramics, mostly funerary offerings from shaft tombs.

And the Chimu, like their counterparts, believed in funerary offerings.

So to avoid having you come back to haunt us, virtually everyone in the compound rushed to put together a rather motley assortment of funerary offerings.

It says much about the Indian attitude toward material objects that such creations were often burned as funerary offerings.

In total we found the remains of 66 individuals with their funerary offerings.

They were usually accompanied by very few funerary offerings, generally bone and lithic artefacts.

Three elite burials have been excavated from the pyramid, two males and a female, accompanied by extremely high quality funerary offerings.

Only six of the urns contained associated funerary offerings: