Visual database

A ch'allador with a snake as its only decorative element. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

Pedestal bowl featuring a serpent rising from the center of the bowl. Photo by Martti Pärssinen.

Pedestal bowl with the spout representing the tail of a rattlesnake. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

Axe-wielding, rattlesnake-tailed sacrificer being. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

Bufo spinulosus spinulosus, male, after Vellard (1991a).

On ch'allador PRT 00340, a monstrous toad being appears to eat a waterfowl, while holding a human by the hair. This probably represents a mythical incident that involved the capture of a high-ranking person. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

A pair of monstrous batrachians with a two-rowed white-collar motif enclosing a hand or foot motif, depicted in the interior of a kidney-shaped vessel. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

Less ominous-looking batrachians painted on the exterior rim of a ch'allador may represent large frogs of the Telmatobius culeus species, associated with fertility and rain. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

A batrachian painted on the exterior rim of a ch'allador. The iconography in the middle of the vessel suggests the later tocapu of Inka textiles. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.

TThe ch'allador PRT 00506 depicts a sitting or squatting being, with raised hands, whose pose is quite similar to that of toad and frog representations. Photo by Antti Korpisaari.