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Stone Sculpture in the Callejón de Huaylas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Richard Schaedel
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One of the most archaeologically significant characteristics of highland Andean cultures is the stone-sculpturing tradition. Most of the reports that have been published to date deal with the more spectacular sites of Tiahuanaco in the south highlands and Chavín de Huántar in the north highlands, but little has appeared to indicate the widespread existence of stone sculpture throughout the Peruvian highlands and the centers where the tradition is particularly strong. It is the purpose of this paper to summarize the stone sculpture in the Callejón de Huaylas area and to indicate its relationship to the accepted archaeological horizons in the north highlands.

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Northern Peru
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Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 4: A Reappraisal of Peruvian Archaeology , 1948 , pp. 66 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1945

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References

1 Bennett, 1942.

2 Kroeber, 1944, pp. 81-90.

3 Tello, 1923, p. 237.

4 For illustrations of the Warrior type see: Tello, 1923, Figs. 41, 43, 44; Tello, 1930, Fig. 15. lower, Fig. 16; Tello, 1929, Figs. 41-3; Bennett, 1944a, Pl. 8, G. I was also permitted the study of Donald Collier's photographs of Aija carvings.

5 For illustrations of the Woman type see: Tello, 1923, Figs. 39, 40; Tello, 1930 Figs. 14, 15. upper; Tello, 1929, Figs. 40 and 45; Bennett, 1944a, Pl. 8, E, F.

6 Seler (1893, Pl. 14) illustrates an anthropomorphic vase with an alleged provenience of Huaraz in which the fanshaped attachment is clearly part of the earring.

7 See Bennett, 1944a, Fig. 33, E, for illustration of this group.

8 Some idea of the characteristic appearance of this subgroup can be obtained from the group photograph in Borchers, 1935, p. 352, statue on the near left.

9 For illustrations of front view of this sub-group, see Borchers, 1935, p. 352, second from far right. For rear view see Bennett, 1944a, Fig. 33, D.

10 Borchers (1935, p. 292) illustrates an example of this group from Carhuaz.

11 Wiener, 1880, p. 137.

12 Wiener, 1880, p. 496.

13 Antúnez de Mayolo, 1935, Fig. 15.

14 Horkheimer, 1944, Fig. 20.

15 Horkheimer, 1944, Fig. 21.

16 Tello, 1923, Figs. 33 and 34.

17 Tello, 1923, Figs. 35 and 37.

18 Bennett, 1944a, Fig. 33, B.

19 For examples from Cabana, see Wiener, 1880, p. 702; from Santiago de Chuco, see Horkheimer, 1944, Fig. 36; from Huamachuco, see McCown, 1945, Pl. 17: 1.

20 Tello, 1930, p. 289.

21 Schmidt, 1929, p. 237.

22 Tello, 1923, Fig. 32.

23 Wiener, 1880.

24 Tello, 1930, p. 289.

25 Bennett, 1944a, pp. 64-5. Assignment of this structure to the Katak period is based on personal communication with Bennett.

26 Bennett, 1944a, p. 17. It is noted that the three-storied temple at Wilkawaín doubtless had such puma head tenons also.