Visual database

SAIS snuff trays from Coyo Oriente, San Pedro de Atacama (continued). (a) Tomb 4111, 13.9 x 5.4 cm; (b) Tomb 4141, 18.2 x 7 cm; (c) Tomb 5299, 14.2 x 6.7; (d) Tomb 5334-41, 17.8 x 5.5 cm; (e) Tomb 5351, 13.8 x 5.7 cm; (f) Tomb 5381, 15.7 x 6.8 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 snuff trays from Quitor 5, San Pedro de Atacama. (a) Tomb 1945, 16.1 x 6.3 cm; (b) Tomb 1994, 13.3 x 5 cm; (c) Tomb 2047, 15 x 4.9 cm; (d) Tomb 2184, 17.8 x 7.4 cm; (e) Tomb 2189, 16.7 x 5.4 cm; (f) Tomb 2196, 18.1 x 4.9 cm; (g) Tomb 2235, 15.6 x 5.8 cm; (h) Tomb 3380, 18.5 x 6.8 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 snuff trays from Quitor 6, San Pedro de Atacama. (a) Tomb 2509, 18.1 x 6.1 cm; (b) Tomb 2742, 16.5 x 6.8 cm; (c) Tomb 2748, 13.5 x 57 cm; (d) Tomb 3523; (e) Tomb 3582; (f) Tomb 3585, 13 x 4.6 cm; (g) Tomb 3613, 17.8 x 6.5; (h) Tomb 3647, 15.1 x 6 cm; (i) Tomb 3662, 14 x 5.5 cm; (j) Tomb 5444, 9.1 x 4.3 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 snuff trays from Solcor 3, San Pedro de Atacama. (a) Tomb 4, 13.2 x 5.2 cm; (b) Tomb 5. 15.7 x 5.5 cm; (c) Tomb 6, 13.3 x 5 cm; (d) Tomb 44, 16.6 x 6.8 cm; (e) Tomb 69, 12.6 x 5.8 cm; (f) Tomb 99, 15.6 x 6.3 cm; (g) Tomb 107, 16.1 x 7.3 cm; (h) Tomb 117, 16.6 x 7 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 snuff trays from various sites, San Pedro de Atacama. (a) Sequitor Alambrado, Tomb 1618, 15.8 x 5.7 cm; (b) Sequitor Alambrado, Tomb 1647, 16.7 x 5.9 cm; (c) Sequitor Alambrado, Tomb 1660, 17 x 5.5 cm; (d) Sequitor Alambrado, Tomb 1702, 12.9 x 5.2 cm; (e) Quitor 8, Tomb 3223, 15.7 x 6.2 cm; (f) Quitor 2, Tomb 3702-04, 16.4 x 6.7 cm; (g) Quitor 2, Tomb 3706, 16.6 x 5.4 cm; (h) Toconao, Tomb 4229, 16.8 x 4 cm. Photo by Constantino M. Torres, drawings by Donna Torres.

SAIS snuff trays, unknown provenience, San Pedro de Atacama area. (a) 14.9 x 6.6 cm; (b) 13.6 x 4.7 cm; (c) 15 x 7.2 cm. Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo R. P. Le Paige, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama. (d) 18.1 x 5.9 cm, collection 2000.200, Denver Art Museum, Colorado; (e) Museo de Historia Natural, Santiago (from Uhle 1912a:Figure 4); (f) collection 41.0.8912, 17.2 x 4.6 cm, American Museum of Natural History, New York; (g) collection 41.0.8911, 15.4 x 5.4 cm, American Museum of Natural History, New York; (h) collection 71.2001.41.1, 13 x 19 cm, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; (i) Lombards Museum, Wikimedia Commons; (j) 17 x 6 cm, collection TC 156, Tomkins Collection.

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.