Visual database

SAIS Snuffing tubes, wood, Solcor 3, San Pedro de Atacama. (a) Tomb 5, 15.7 cm; (b) Tomb 44, 26.1 cm; (c) Tomb 76, 16.1 cm; (d) Tomb 79, 19.6 cm; (e) Tomb 99, 16.6 cm; (f) Tomb 103, 19.2 cm. Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo R. P. Le Paige, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Photo by Constantino M. Torres.

SAIS Snuffing tubes. (a) Tomb 2137, Quitor 5, 19.2 cm, wood; (b) Tomb 3974, Coyo Oriente, 19.5 cm, wood; (c) Tomb 3662, Quitor 6, 17.2 cm; (d) fragment, Tomb 4008, Coyo Oriente, wood; Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueologicas y Museo R. P. Le Paige, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile; (e) Tomb 5307, Coyo Oriente, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo R. P. Le Paige, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile; (f) Tiahuanaco, camelid bone, 11.43 cm, collection 36095, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Museum Expedition, Max Uhle 1895. Photo courtesy Clark Erickson.

(a) Snuff tray and tube, Tomb 107, Solcor 3. Snuffing tube, wood with gold/copper alloy wrapping, 21.5 cm, collection 8431; wooden snuff tray with stone inlays, 16.1 x 7.3 cm, collection 8432; (b) Tomb 1392, Solcor Plaza, 20.9 cm. Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo R. P. Le Paige, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Photo by Constantino M. Torres, drawing by Donna Torres.

Snuff trays, southern Lake Titicaca basin. (a) Putuni, Tiahuanaco, camelid bone, 14.5 cm, Archaeological Museum, Tiahuanaco (Webster and Janusek 2003:358, Figure 14.16); (b) stone snuff tray, Tiahuanaco(?), 11.5 cm, Roemer Museum, collection V.5521, Hildesheim, Germany; (c) stone snuff tray fragment, Tiahuanaco(?), collection V.5520, Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, Germany (Uhle 1912a:Figures 15, 16); (d) stone snuff tray, Tiahuanaco(?), 15.5 cm, collection 10718, Museo Etnográfico, Buenos Aires, Argentina (photo Luis Cornejo); (e) stone snuff tray, Quiripuju, Bolivia, 12.06 cm, collection 35636, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Museum Expedition, Max Uhle 1895; (f) stone snuff tray fragment, Cumaná Island, southern Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, 7.1 cm, collection 35515, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Museum Expedition, Max Uhle 1895; (g) stone snuff tray fragment, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, collection 36072, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Museum Expedition, Max Uhle 1895 (e-g, photo courtesy Clark Erickson); (h) stone snuff tray, 12.8 cm, Tiahuanaco, collection 75-20-30/8649, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Alexander E. Agassiz collection; (i) wooden snuff tray with gold and Spondylus inlays, 24.6 cm, Pallqa, Amaguaya, department of La Paz, Museo Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia; (j) wooden snuff tray with stone and shell inlays, 17.1 cm, collection 2000.211, Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Photo courtesy Margaret Young-Sánchez.

Snuff trays from Niño Korin, Bolivia. (a) Wooden snuff tray, 18.5 cm, collection 70.19.1; (b) wooden snuff tray with avian representation, 17 cm, collection 70.19.23; (c) snuff tray with profile crowned bird, 16 cm, collection 70.19.19; (d) snuff tray with bird head engravings, 14 cm, collection 70.19.21; (e) snuff tray with half-fist representation, 10.5 cm, collection 70.19.33, Varldskulturmuseet (Museum of World Culture), Gothenburg, Sweden; (f) wooden snuff tray with relief representation, 10.7 cm, Museo Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia (Oblitas Poblete 1963:Figure 88). Photo by Constantino M. Torres, drawings by Donna Torres.

Snuff trays from southern Peru and far northern Chile. (a) La Real, Valle de Majes, Museo de Aplao (Garcia and Bustamante 1990:Figure 3); (b) wooden snuff tray, Molino-Chilacachi, deptartment of Puno, 19.5 cm (de la Vega et al. 2005:Figure 12.6); (c) Chilatilla Bajo, Museo Arqueológico, Algarrobal (Alcalde Gonzalez 1995:Figure 3); (d) Chiu-Chiu, present location unknown; (e) Caleta Camarones, present location unknown (d and e from Latcham 1938:Figures la-c). Drawings by Donna Torres.

Anandenathera colubrina var. Cebil, Salta province, Argentina. Photo, left, courtesy Christian Rätsch.

Probable representations of Anadenanthera flowers, leaves, and seeds. (a) Conchopata pottery sherd (Knobloch 2000); (b) Bennett stele, det., chest pendant; (c) Ponce stele, det., left arm; (d) stone sculpture, det., chest pendant, Putuni, Tiahuanaco; (e-j) various types of Anadenanthera icons. Photo by Constantino M. Torres; drawings by Donna Torres.

Trichocereus pachanoi, near Chavín de Huántar, Peru. Bottom right, Trichocereus pachanoi flower. Top right, camelid bearing cargo, detail from Bennett stele, Tiahuanaco. Photo by Constantino M. Torres.

Ponce stele, 3.05 m, found in central courtyard of the Kalasasaya, Tiahuanaco. Photo by Constantino M. Torres.