118 Notice of Peruvian Antiquities. 
are hollow, and without any visible soldermg. ‘The first and the 
third represent a naked woman, with her hair plaited, seen both with 
a full and side face; it is two inches seven lines long, seven lines 
wide, and it weighs a castellano, five and a half tomines.* 
The figure No. 2, is also of gold; it represents an Indian, seated, 
with a head dress, which covers his shoulders, and he has a girdle 
about his head ; it is about five inches eight lines in length, three 
inches six lines in width, and it weighs about an ounce, (a doubloon.) 
It belongs to Sefior D. Pio Tristan, who found it in a huaca at 
Cuzco. ; 
The figures 4 and, are of solid silver, moulded ; they represent 
two naked indians, with the hunting caps upon their heads, their 
hands upon their breasts, chewing 4eullico ;t they are two inches 
seven lines long, seven lines wide, and the value of each one is two 
dollars. These, and those of gold, were found in a huaca, by Ulue- 
urayo, a department of Junin. 
These figures, we are told, represent a tribe of Indians, called 
Opas, a stupid and ugly people, who were consulted as oracles ; but 
according to our manner of thinking, we rather believe that they may 
be images of the demi-gods whom they worshipped, and they offered 
in their great feasts to the principal, which was the sun.{ 
The figure 5, represents a woman, seated, with her hands upon 
her knees, with a head-dress, and ear-rings attached below the ears, 
a tube projects from the back, and reaches to the neck, to this is at- 
tached another shorter one, which is contiguous, and rises above the 
head, through which the water is poured. This figure is entirely of 
black clay, and is very much like the Egyptian statues. 
The remaining figures are those brought out by Mr. Coit, and 
which are mentioned at p. 46, of this number ; we have no particu- 
jar knowledge of their history ; but as they appear to be connected 
with the subject of the above notice, we have had the figures drawn 
and engraved upon the same plate with those described above. 
There can be little doubt that these figures were connected both with 
the superstition of the ancient Peruvians, and with their veneration 
for the dead. 
* The value of which is about seventy five cents. 
Ry a species of plant. 
$ ‘What appears appears most probable is, that these were a kind of penates, protectors of 
