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Rubbings from Chavin de Huántar, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Fred D. Ayres
Fred D. Ayres*
Affiliation:
Reed College, Portland, Ore.
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Abstract

The inked-roller technique used to obtain “surface prints” of Chavín carvings, many of which have been discovered only recently, is described, and twelve prints or rubbings of these carvings and one of the Raimondi stela are illustrated.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , October 1961 , pp. 239 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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