Fig. 10.
It is said that such idols were not permitted to be worshipped by the Incas. They are of granite, found among the Andes—not from the Cordilleras. In Peru and Bolivia, the Cordilleras are not interrupted by water-courses, but are the dividing lines between the Atlantic and the Pacific water-sheds; while the Andes chain is cut in many places by the streams flowing to the eastward.
Fig. 11.
Figure 11 is of granite, bird-like in shape. It might have been made for the head of a war-club or slung-stone.
Fig. 12.