AN ANDEAN MEDAL. 



BY SAMUEL GARMAN. 



THE piece of silver here described and sketched was 

 obtained by a friend of the writer in the interior of Peru, 

 from a native who claimed to have taken it, in the neigh- 

 borhood of Cuzco, from the mouth of a mummy. Its 

 peculiar design and the workmanship make it an object of 

 curiosity to those interested in what pertains to the early 

 Peruvians. This notice is given it in hope that it may 

 prove of some account, in connection with other ornamen- 

 tation, in researches concerning the metal workers of the 

 lands of the Incas. My friend saw no reason to doubt 

 the story of the man from whom he got it. For myself, 

 I can only vouch for my friend, the description, and the 

 sketches. The latter were made by pressing the disk 

 against damp paper on which the points in relief were 

 afterward traced in ink. 



The medal is a nearly round silver disk an inch and one 

 sixteenth in diameter and not far from one twenty-fifth of 



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