I'liotoi by lliraiii JJiuKliaiii 



STUCCO STILL IN POSITION: MACHU I'ICCIIU 



Some of the houses were lined with such beautiful stone work as to require no otlicr 

 finish. In others it seems probable that the roughl)- finished stones were covered with somt- 

 kind of mud or plaster. The picture shows the only house in Machu Picchu where consid- 

 erable portions of this plaster still remain on the walls (see page 471). 



1 1 irain ISingliain 



.\N UNUSU.\L (iKOL'I' Ol- NICIIKS: .M.XClir I'ICCIIU 



In this house, or temple, the niches are of unusual form. The picture shows three, each 

 one of which contains three little niches, and also has devices whcrcl)y it could have been 

 closed by a bar fastened to the corner stones. 



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