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work has thus far shown, the potters of the north were more 

 successful in their attempts to copy the Cuzco style than were 

 those of the south. We should bear in mind, however, the likeli- 

 hood that cruder specimens of vessels of the Inca type have not 

 been reported on. A vessel from Ibarra, Ecuador, is noteworthy 

 in this connection. It is shown by Seler (1893, Plate 48, Figure 

 20). It is an aryballus, but the graceful shape of the prototype 

 is not preserved in this copy ; the flowing line that, in the Cuzco 

 vessels, merges the neck with the body is here broken by a 

 pronounced shoulder. The decoration, however, combines the 

 "quipu motif" with the "diamond motif." 



It may seem odd at first that the widest divergences from 

 the Cuzco standard do not occur in the regions furthest fi-om 

 Cuzco. Pachacamac and lea are the two sites which show the 

 most strongly localized arts. The reader is urged to consult 

 Uhle's publications on this point.*^ In the period that preceded 

 the Inca period at Pachacamac, as we have seen, the people made 

 a great number of black clay vessels with one-handled globular 

 bodies and necks adorned with rather coarsely modelled human 

 faces. The combination of this art with Inca vessels of the 

 aryballus type resulted at Pachacamac in giving two handles to 

 the vessels and in adding paint to the modelled face. We should 

 not fail to note that in many cases where the hands appear in 

 the Inca vessels they have five fingers. This emphasizes the 

 breaking away from the old Tiahuanaco tradition. At lea, as 

 we have previously observed, large vessels of a slightly oval 

 shape were made in the last pre-Inca period. These develop 

 into a definitely egg-shaped or cask-shaped type decorated some- 

 times with Inca motifs and sometimes with Nasca motifs. 



This brings us to the consideration of the other type of varia- 

 tion from the Cuzco standard. It is the class of variation which 

 Consists in a manifestation of the influence of local pre-Inca arts 

 jjon the Cuzco type. The reader has just seen the effect that Inca 

 art had upon the modelled black ware of the coast. He is now 

 tasked to turn his attention to its corollary, the type which shows 

 the influence of the black ware of the coast upon the Cuzco 

 types. In Plate XV, Figure 4, we have an excellent specimen of 

 this class. Though both come from Machu Picchu, Figure 3 may 



*'Uhle, 1903, Plates VIII and XIII, 1913b, Plate X. 



