NATIONAL MUSEUM at Lima, Peru, is the world's finest treasure-house of Pe- 

 ruvian artifacts. It is widely known as the Inca Museum, for it reflects the art 

 of the Incas. Its rarest treasures, however, date back centuries before the era 

 of the Inca kings. Some students place the earliest culture of Peru as far back 

 as ten thousand years. At any rate, Peru developed the highest culture on the 

 South American continent, including arts long since forgotten. Ancient textiles 

 and figurines in the National Museum ore shown on the opposite page. 



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