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"ol"k, wing-like ext{nsions at the sides are edged with a line of repou5sé
dots. There are perforations for attachment and, below the chin, paired
slits, one still showing a metal ring in place. It measures r2 inches by
9 inches (PIate F, fig. r).
More striking is a large silver mask in the same collection also obtained
in Lima under like conditions. Jt is cOl11posed of t\Vo plates of
silver with complementar)' repoussé cl esing, each representing half of
the face (PIate F, fig. 3). It probably decked the faIse head of a very
large mummy bale.
That masks of the quadrangul a r fl at type with repoussé technique
were associated with the fabric heacl is conclllsively shown by Reiss and
Stübel (14). The face of thi s fa lse head of cloth is ,painted red as are
others from Ancon and covered with a square repoussé silver mask.
The eyes of the mask are oll tlined by inci sed rhombs and the nose is
defined in the same technique, a tuft of feathers ornaments the chino
lf is lo be nored that here the melal type of th_ northern district overlaps
and is imposed upon the central coastal type, in fairly contigllous
territory.
Dr. Uhle's find of a silver mask (Plate F, fig. 2) adorning a mllmmy
of probably early Inca times at La Centinela in the L u rin Valle), fixes
a lale date for metal masks in central Perll (r s); probably all the metal
masks of this form in the Late Chimu te rritory also are due to Inca 111­
fI uence.
On the other hand a silver mask from Chancay published by
Schmidt (r6) ancl one of beaten gold ancl copper a110y with eyes of inlaid
shell from Moche recorded as in the Sertorius Collection in Stuttgart (17),
were both designed to cover the actual face.
South of the Central eoastal Region the oecasional use o f false
heads would seem to have continued, judg ing by fl at metal masks from
• l ea and the Nasca reg ion , to be fOUlld in eollec ti ons of Peruvian A ntiquities.
The gold and silver l ca masks describecl by Schmidt (r8) ;;¡s
"I1luI11i engesichtsmasken" show no attempt at portraiture and are provided
with perforations for attachment. It is probable that some Nasca
metal masks, notably one in the University lVIuseu I11, were in tended for
the face of the mummy rather than for attachment to a fal se head.
The funerary masks, ,whatever their semblance of life may be, are by
their structure precluded from use by the living. There a re other Per
uvlan masks which are not to be confused with the former . These are
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(15)
Reiss and Stiibel.-L. c., pI. 21, 7.
Uhle, M.- L. c., p. 71.
(16) Schmidt, M.~L .C, p. 554, lig. 3.
(1 7) Lehmann, 'Walter, and Doering, Heinrich.-Tbe Art of Old P eru. New
York, 1924, pi. 107·
(18) Schmidt, M.-L. c., p. 367, ligs. 4, 5; 376, lig. 1; 377. ligs. r, 3.