Identifier: twoyearsinperuwi01hutc (find matches)
Title: Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hutchinson, Thomas Joseph, b. 1820
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Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Low, (and) Searle
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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were obtained at Caja-tambo at the other side of the Andes. On one ofthe walls is painted a great oval face of a deepred colour, backed with yellow and fringed withblue, supposed to be the artists idea of a presidingSun. For all these things are credited to theInca sun-worshippers—although probably manya time the real sun shone over them before everthere was an Inca in the land. One of thesemummies is said to have been found at Ayacucho.They are all in the usual squatting posture, and onewith a rope round its neck is said to have beenexecuted. In two the hair and teeth are wellpreserved, the tresses of one—a lady—being asnicely plaited as when she went to her last dinner,route, or dancing party. Amongst these tilings exhibited are severalwater-crofts of prehistoric crockery-ware—clothof exquisite dye—feather hats, bows and arrows,stone hatchets, and canoe paddles. Here also w^e Geografia del Poni, p. 308, published in 18G2. Antiquedadcs Peruanac, published at Vienna in 1851.
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