Gold headdress ornament; Nasca, Peru, 400 B.C. – A.D. 600; 18.4 × 20.5 cm; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The Nora and John Wise Collection (loan); object number 1976.W.531. PD by FA2010 via Wikimedia, slightly edited by me.
There are more like this, with Medusa-like serpents as hair:
Gold Headband Mask, 100 BC 550 AD, Nazca. Houston Museum Of Natural Science. Exhibit in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, USA. PD by Daderot via Wikimedia. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
Funeral mask from the Nasca culture. Photographer unknown. Via Jean-Pierre Dubois.
Gold Mask. National Museum of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. The Qurikancha (the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco, Peru) was covered with gold and filled with golden statues. The sun mask in this image, from the La Tolita culture in northern Ecuador, has survived the vicissitudes of time. La Tolita culture lasted from ca 600BC to 400AD and produced some of the finest pre-Columbian gold artifacts. Via Proyecto Inti. Edited to correct perspective.
Closeup of the carvings on the pre-Incan Gate of the Sun. CC-BY-SA Jerrye and Roy Klotz MD.
Fig. 69. Nasca, Peru vase, date unknown (14.24° S, 75.58° W). Note the similarity to the northern hemisphere petroglyphs (Fig. 68, left).
Guishan Guanyin of the Thousand Hands and Eyes in Changsha, China. CC BY-SA by Alexandre Afanassiev via Wikimedia Commons
Siberian shaman drum. Image by Tor Gjerde.
Wanampum Petroglyphs at Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Vantage, Washington. Photo by Manuel Rincon via Panoramio.
P23.1B Perseus and Medusa. Museum Collection: Staatliche Antikensammlungen">Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany
Catalogue Number: Munich 2312
Beazley Archive Number: 201820
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Amphora, Panathenaic
Painter: Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Date: ca 490 BC Period: Late Archaic. Detail of Medousa, from a scene depicting her flight from the hero Perseus. Her rounded face is monstrous, with wide tusked mouth, protruding tongue, staring eyes, and head circled by a ring of coiled serpents. Via Theoi.
Catalogue Number: Munich 2312
Beazley Archive Number: 201820
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Amphora, Panathenaic
Painter: Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Date: ca 490 BC Period: Late Archaic. Detail of Medousa, from a scene depicting her flight from the hero Perseus. Her rounded face is monstrous, with wide tusked mouth, protruding tongue, staring eyes, and head circled by a ring of coiled serpents. Via Theoi.
"Medusa" by Arnold Böcklin, ca. 1878. Oil on canvas, private collection.
Fig. 68. Left: Northern hemisphere petroglyphs from the Columbia River Basin, 45.65° N, 121.95° W. Right: Oblique view into the auroral plasma column from these coordinates.
As a sidenote, in this book you will find an astounding amount of “electric” references in Peruvian ceramics:
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A. R. Sawyer, Ancient Peruvian ceramics: the Nathan Cummings collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
[Bibtex]@Book{sawyer1966, author = {Sawyer, Alan Reed}, title = {Ancient Peruvian ceramics: the Nathan Cummings collection}, year = {1966}, language = {English}, note = {With drawings by Milton F. Sonday, Jr. and photographs by William F. Pons and William E. Lyall.}, publisher = {The Metropolitan Museum of Art}, pages = {152}, url = {http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/35107}, urldate = {2016-06-27}, comment = {Title Ancient Peruvian ceramics : the Nathan Cummings collection by Alan R. Sawyer ; with drawings by Milton F. Sonday, Jr., and photos. by William F. Pons and William E. Lyall Creator Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919- Description Bibliography: p. 140-141 Subject Indians of South America -- Peru -- Antiquities Indian pottery -- Peru Peru -- Antiquities Publisher New York;The Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn. Contributor Cummings, Nathan, 1896-1985 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Date 1966 Dimensions 144 p. : illus. (part mounted col.) maps ; 29 cm Digital Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications Repository Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Language English Type text Copyright Status copyrighted Copyright Notice Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Copyright Information The Libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art make digital versions of collections accessible for research purposes in the following situations: They are in the public domain; the rights are owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art; we have permission to make them accessible; we make them accessible as a fair use, or there are no known restrictions on use. To learn what your responsibilities are if you'd like to use the materials, go to http://www.metmuseum.org/information/terms-and-conditions Watsonline record number b10395180 Link to Watsonline record: http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1039518 OCLC number 893698102}, file = {sawyer1966.pdf:media/trismegisto/Vitamin/Documents/Bibliography/sawyer1966.pdf:PDF}, shorttitle = {Ancient Peruvian ceramics}, timestamp = {2016-06-27}, }
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