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in turn our consideration of these departures from the usual 

 type. 



It may be said that the Inca dominion spread first south then 

 north. The Inca artifacts found in northern sites are, on that 

 account, Hkely to be more recent than those found in the southern 

 sites. In Argentina and Chile Inca vessels are frequently met 

 with. Boman (1908, I, Plate X) shows tw^o aryballi from Lapaya 

 in north-western Argentina. The shape of the vessels and the 

 arrangement of handles and nubbins are exactly the same as in 

 vessels from Cuzco or Machu Picchu. The pattern on the better 

 of the two pots is divided into two motifs which are the "diamond 

 motif" in two forms, and a debased form of the "saw-tooth 

 motif." Boman's Plates XI and XIV (vol. I) show other 

 Cuzco-type vessels from Lapaya which do not call for special 

 mention. His Plate XVIII (vol. I) shows two aryballi from the 

 Argentine site of Lerma. One shows the "saw-tooth motif" 

 and the "diamond motif." The other combines a perfect Cuzco 

 shape with a well-modelled snake whose head is near the neck 

 of the vessel and slightly raised as if to strike. In general, then, 

 these designs, though obviously derived directly from Cuzco 

 prototypes and totally unrelated to any other Peruvian art, are 

 marred in some cases by a crudeness and uncertainty of execu- 

 tion that may, perhaps, be attributed to a lack of skill on the 

 part of local makers. An examination of Cuzco pottery from 

 Chilean sites reveals a similar situation. Oyarzun (1910, p. 

 363 ff.) show's six Inca or Cuzco aryballi from places in northern 

 Chile. In three cases both shape and decoration are of the best 

 Cuzco style, but in the other three the designs, though derived 

 directly from Inca ones, are crude in point of execution. Turn- 

 ing our attention to Ecuadorian sites we find that the state of 

 affairs is much the same as in the far south of the Inca dominion. 

 Dorsey (1901, Plate XLII) shows a fine Inca aryballus from 

 the island of La Plata in the Bay of Guayaquil. It is exactly 

 of the same shape as the Cuzco of Machu Picchu vessels and 

 it is adorned with the "quipu motif." Bamps (1879, Plates II, 

 III, and IV) shows many Inca vessels from points further north 

 and east in Ecuador. Again, both in shape and in the execu- 

 tion of the designs, these vessels could not be told apart from simi- 

 lar ones from Cuzco or Machu Picchu. So far as archaeological 



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