This shroud is the cloak of a chief of the Paracas culture. It was already worn by him during his lifetime and was buried with him at his death, together with many other textiles tied into a bundle. In the Boston Museum of Fine Arts there is a cloak with the same motifs. The motif shows the owner of the cloak in his ceremonial dress, which has many animal elements. It takes between 20,000 and 30,000 working hours to produce such an elaborate textile. Since several hundred bundles were found, some of which contained up to 200 textiles, one can almost assume that there was a textile industry already existing at that time. Also, many techniques that were applied to old Peruvian textiles were already available in the pre-Christian millennium. Recent archaeological research has revealed a much larger distribution area of the Paracas culture than previously thought.