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connected with a cup with the same motif shown by Joyce (1912, 

 p. 207). This cup, both because of the puma-heads and because 

 of the general technique, is obviously Tiahuanaco II. The swas- 

 tika is a motif which is excessively rare in Peruvian art. The 

 ones in this specimen are not perfect in form. The reader is 

 warned that this garment may not be Tiahuanaco II after all, 

 though the writer now believes that it is. 



Plate VIII, Figure 2, shows a fine piece of cloth from the 

 Nasca region. It has affinities with both the Proto-Nasca and 

 Tiahuanaco II styles as follows: With Proto-Nasca, face-paint- 

 ing (or masking), centipede element, and coloration; with Tia- 

 huanaco II, tear-lines, eyebrows and nose in T form, three-digit 

 hands. The specimen is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 

 and is the gift of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross. 



Though it may at first seem illogical, we will now turn our 

 attention to the Tiahuanaco II art of the coast; then we will 

 study it in another region of the highlands. The reason for 

 this course will become apparent later. 



The writer regrets that he has not been able to obtain any 

 satisfactory pictures of coast Tiahuanaco II art. Much material 

 is readily accessible to the student, however, and the following 

 works should be consulted: Baessler, ip02-os; Reiss und Stiibel, 

 1880-8/; Holmes, 1889; Oyarzun, 1910; Uhle, 1901, 1902, ipo^, 

 igo8, 1910, 1910b, 1910C, 1912, IQ13, 1913b, 1914; Putnam, 

 F. K., 1914; Therese von Bayern, 1907; Beuchat, 1912; Joyce, 

 19 1 2, 1913b; Bamps, 1879. (The reader is especially referred 

 to the works in italics.) 



It will be remembered that in the Tiahuanaco II art of the 

 interior two things were very noticeable: the tendency toward 

 bilateral symmetry in the design, and the comparative poorness 

 of coloration. Of these characteristics only the former appears 

 on the coast. As in the case of Proto-Nasca art, coloration on 

 both vessels and textiles was extremely rich. For example, look 

 at Plate 134, Figure 373, in Baessler. The design that appears at 

 that place shows two birds with squarish heads. The design 

 comes from Pachacamac. A detailed description of it may be of 

 use to the reader. The two birds, whose heads alone appear, 

 face one another. They have hawk-like beaks, darkened eye- 

 areas and headdresses adorned with tabs ending off in three 

 fringes just like those on the minor figures of the monolithic gate- 



