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PERUVIAN ART 
Fig. 9 represents a humming bird. A row of these birds is painted 
around a pottery vessel from Nazca. They are all sucking honey from 
a six-pointed flower on the upper surface of the vessel. Only a part of 
this flower is shown in the sketch. 
Fig. 10 shows another bird on Nazca pottery. This, like the last 
described, is beautifully painted in colors. 
Fig. 11 is a pelican that has just caught a fish. This design is a part 
of the woven fabric. Similar figures are also found in relief on cloth. 
This is done by sewing on narrow pieces of braid. The fish in the bird’s 
mandibles is a common conventionalized form, often seen both on cloth 
and pottery, especially where space only admits of a small figure. 
Fig. 12 shows birds from three Nazca pottery vessels. They are 
painted white on variously colored darker backgrounds. 
Fig. 13 shows the decorations on a piece of vicufia cloth, as it is 
commonly called, from Pachacamac. The warp threads are cotton, 
crossed by a weft of vicufia wool, which completely covers them. The 
ground color is a deep reddish-brown with the decoration in yellow. 
The effect produced is extremely pleasant and artistic and has made 
this textile one of the favorites of art students who have many times 
copied it in colors. It also affords a good example of the influence of 
basket work on the arts of these people. The lines bounded by zigzags 
are plainly copied from the work of the basket maker. The birds’ necks 
rise and depend from these basket designs. 
Fig. 14 is from a large shawl-like garment from Lachay, near Chan- 
cay. The color of this textile is indigo blue with the designs woven in 
white, in broad stripes. It is the interlocked bird design: the upper 
bird faces to the right, and the lower one to the left. If we study one 
of these birds we find in its neck and body the same form as is shown in 
Fig. 3. 
THE PUMA 
PiatTEe IV 
Fig. 1 shows the head of the puma in terra cotta. This form is only 
found in the art of Tiahuanaco. It seems to be the parent of the 
hundreds of conventionalized cat heads wherever the influence of Tia- 
huanaco art is found and especially at Pachacamac. The puma was 
one of the gods worshipped by the Peruvians and the “ puma god,”’ part 
man and part puma, is often represented in the arts of the Tiahuanaco 
or Megalithic people. 
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