This document contains images and descriptions of artifacts from the Inca civilization and colonial-era Peru, including reconstructions of Inca sites, examples of Inca ceramics, textiles, wooden drinking vessels, and metalwork. It also features paintings of Inca subjects from the colonial period as well as contemporary photographs of tourists at Machu Picchu and fashion spreads inspired by Inca aesthetics.
2. Quispiguanca, royal retreat of Wayna Qhapaq, Late Horizon, c. 1400 – 1532
Reconstruction drawing of how the site might have once looked
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3. Raqchi, Inka site to the south of Cuzco, Late Horizon, c. 1400 – 1532
Plan of site
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4. Raqchi
Top Left: View of storehouses
Bottom Left: Reconstruction drawing of kallanka (large hall)
Bottom Right: The ruins of the kallanka as they appear today
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5. Huaytara, provincial Inka site to the west of Cuzco with a Late Horizon (c.
1400 – 1532) kallanka that was turned into a church by the Spanish during the
Colonial period
Top Left: view of exterior
Bottom right: view of interior
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6. Inka, carved wooden keros (drinking vessels), Late Horizon, c. 1450 – 1532
CE
Left: Height = 5 ? in. (14.6 cm)
Right: Matched pair, height = 5 ? in. (14 cm)
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7. Pair of silver aquillas (metal beakers) likely made in Potosí (Bolivia) in the
early 17th century, recovered from the wreck of the Atocha (sank 1622), height
= 5 in. (12.7 cm)
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8. Left: Inka ceramic dish, Late Horizon, c. 1400 – 1532 CE, diameter = 8 ? in.
(21 cm)
Right: Silver dish likely made in Potosí (Bolivia) in the early 17th century,
recovered from the wreck of the Atocha (sank 1622), diameter = approx. 8 in.
(20.3 cm)
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9. Left: Detail of incised decoration on dish from previous slide
Right: Red fringe crown (mascaypacha) reserved for the Sapa Inka (emperor)
in pre-Conquest times
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10. Painting of Marcos Chiguan Topa, Cuzco, c. 1740-45, oil on canvas, 78 3/8 x
51 1/8 in. (199 x 130 cm)
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11. Multiple views including rollout photograph (top) of an Inka painted kero, early
Colonial era, c. late 16th – early 17th century, height = 19 1/3 in. (49 cm)
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12. Early Colonial Inka painted wooden keros
Left: height = 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)
Right: height = 7 13/16 in. (19.9 cm)
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13. Inka tunic with tocapu-style design, Early Colonial era, c. 1532 – 1600 CE,
height = 38 ? in. (97.8 cm)
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