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brio-ht, as if juf5t finished. Figure 4 is a male, with the coca quid, and a cap with horizontal 

 folds. The hands (imperfectly developed) are placed on the breast, the prevailing attitude. 

 Fio-ure 6 shows the disposition of the hair of figure 5. The ears, large and stretched in the 

 man, are invisible in the female. The two figures are supposed to represent a man and his wife. 

 Figure 7 is of the same material; an Indian seated on his hams, the hands resting on the 

 ground. The cap is similar to that on figure 4 ; the height is rather less than an inch ; the 

 features rude and imperfect; the whole much corroded. 



Figures 8 and 9. Two views of one image, in silver; an Inca or Cacique, with the dress and 

 badges of his ofiice, and the best finished, if not the best modelled, figure of the whole. The 

 head, as usual, is too large, and the arms are withered. The height is two inches, and the whole 

 solid. Eight golden spokes radiate from the rim of the conical hat or cap, the front of which 

 is ornamented with dotted rays. Two convex plates of gold are worn at the ears. A species 

 of cassock passes over the shoulders, and reaches to the knees in the front and rear. An outer 

 robe passes over it, but descends only half way. Plaits of hair, or hat-strings, hang down 

 upon the breast. A silver baton with a swell on it is in the right hand, and something appears 

 to have once occupied the other. 



Figure 10. Solid silver; a llama, size of the sketch. The joints of the moulds in which it 

 was cast are indicated. 



Figure 11. A llama or one of its congeners, two inches high, and as long. It has evidently 

 been worn as an ornament or jewel. A loop of silver wire is soldered at the junction of the 

 neck and trunk, while the tail is bent to form another. Two ingots — one of silver, the other of 

 gold — are soldered on the back of the animal, clearly showing the ancient use of the llama in 

 transporting blocks of these metals. (The ingots are figured beneath.) At the present time 

 llamas are of the greatest utility, as they frequently carry the metals from the mines in places 

 where declivities are so steep that neither asses nor mules could keep their footing. 



Figures 12 and 12a. Another image of solid silver, less than two inches high. It is rudely 

 formed, with the eyes, nose, and hands preternaturally large. The head is remarkably flat- 

 tened, and the lobes of the ears are stretched down to the shoulders. 



Figure 14. A statuette of a man, solid, nine and a half inches high, very heavy, and black 

 with age. The nose is large and aquiline ; the ears slit and stretched ; the cap ribbed hori- 

 zontally as in figures 4 and V. The material of this casting, according to the catalogue, is 

 "cJiam^n," but from examination it appeared to me to be pure copper, coated or plated by some 

 means with silver, for when the 'latter was cut through the copper appeared. Ridges on the 

 inside of the thighs and legs show the meeting of the two halves of the mould. 



Figures 15 and 16 are two sketches of one subject. This image is that of a female, and of 

 the same material and dimensions as the preceding one. Both were discovered together, and 

 are supposed to represent an Inca or Cacique and his wife. A number of gold, silver, and 

 bronze bands are let in flush with the surface. Perhaps they were placed in the moulds before 

 the metal was run in. By looking at the initial letters placed opposite these bands in figure 

 15, it will be seen that two are of gold, five of silver, and three of baser metal. The eyes and 

 paps are of gold. The bands vary from three-eighths to three-sixteenths of an inch in width, and 

 their ends lap over each other and are imperfectly united. Their thickness appeared in one 

 place over an eighth of an inch. The whole figure is black ; but if scratched anywhere silver 

 appears, and when cut through copper comes to view. The ankle-bones were quite prominent, 

 the fingers poorly portrayed, the feet flat above, with sand-holes in several parts ; the rather 

 rude joints of the flasks observable on the casting, as in figure 14, leaving no room to doubt 

 that those essential devices in our foundries were used by old Peruvian smiths. 



Figure 13. A cJmspa, or small bag, used for carrying tobacco or coca. The weft is cotton ; 

 the warp Alpaca wool. The front is eight inches square, and ornamented with figures wrought 

 in the fabric as represented. The strap is a species of knitted work, very similar to what 

 modern Indians [)roduce. These bags were suspended at the left side, the straps going over the 



