This model shows the funeral procession of an important person. His empty litter is being borne behind a casket carried on the shoulders of two mournful men. Inside the casket are two small vessels, a reference to the long-standing Andean tradition of burying offerings, often in the form of vessels, with the dead. There is a pillow in the coffin but no body; perhaps the procession is on its way to pick up the mortuary bundle of the deceased. Three of the litterbearers, two of whom wear headdresses, have square faces and the other three figures have round faces—perhaps a distinction between social rank or ethnic group. Similar scenes of litter- and pallbearers are also known in ceramic.