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  CULTURE 
  OF 
  N. 
  COAST 
  OF 
  PERU 
  — 
  LARCO 
  HOYLE 
  

  

  151 
  

  

  The 
  sole 
  pottery 
  vessel 
  of 
  Cupisnique 
  style 
  depicting 
  a 
  house 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  corresponds 
  to 
  the 
  stone-adobe 
  subtype. 
  This 
  vessel 
  (pi. 
  61, 
  b) 
  

   shows 
  a 
  house 
  of 
  simple 
  rectangular 
  plan 
  with 
  a 
  gabled 
  roof. 
  The 
  

   rectilinear 
  figure 
  seen 
  on 
  one 
  side 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  doorway. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  Pampa 
  de 
  los 
  F6siles 
  and 
  at 
  Hacienda 
  Sausal 
  (Barbacoa 
  

   and 
  Palenque) 
  there 
  are 
  remains 
  of 
  walls 
  constructed 
  of 
  fairly 
  large, 
  

   irregular 
  stones 
  set 
  in 
  mud 
  and 
  fitted 
  with 
  stone 
  spalls. 
  

  

  Adobe 
  structures 
  of 
  the 
  period 
  are 
  built 
  up 
  of 
  conical 
  or 
  odonti- 
  

   form 
  adobes. 
  Walls 
  of 
  adobe 
  were 
  built 
  up 
  by 
  placing 
  rows 
  of 
  coni- 
  

   cal 
  adobes 
  point 
  to 
  point 
  (fig. 
  19, 
  a) 
  and 
  then 
  by 
  filling 
  the 
  angles 
  and 
  

   interstices 
  with 
  clay 
  mortar. 
  In 
  the 
  construction 
  of 
  walls 
  of 
  great 
  

   thickness, 
  a 
  double 
  row 
  of 
  adobes 
  was 
  laid 
  point 
  to 
  point. 
  On 
  these 
  

   another 
  layer 
  of 
  adobes 
  was 
  alined 
  in 
  reverse 
  in 
  such 
  a 
  manner 
  that 
  

   their 
  pointed 
  ends 
  touched 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  row, 
  and 
  likewise 
  

   fitted 
  base 
  to 
  base 
  with 
  each 
  other. 
  The 
  conical 
  adobes 
  always 
  

   had 
  their 
  flat 
  bases 
  toward 
  the 
  outside, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  flat 
  surface 
  

   for 
  the 
  wall. 
  The 
  adobes 
  were 
  laid 
  on 
  a 
  slight 
  incline, 
  so 
  that 
  a 
  

   transverse 
  cut 
  shows 
  the 
  rows 
  as 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  undulating 
  faces 
  (fig. 
  19, 
  

   b). 
  The 
  walls 
  were 
  given 
  a 
  uniform 
  surface 
  by 
  coating 
  them 
  with 
  

   clay 
  plaster. 
  Both 
  solid 
  circular 
  and 
  pyramidal 
  constructions 
  were 
  

   initiated 
  in 
  this 
  cultural 
  period. 
  

  

  Figure 
  19. 
  — 
  Arrangement 
  of 
  conical 
  adobes 
  in 
  Cupisnique 
  structures. 
  (Redrawn 
  

   from 
  Larco 
  Hoyle, 
  1941, 
  fig. 
  191.) 
  

  

  