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Inca votive figurines like the one illustrated here have been found in a variety of offering contexts, including high mountain capacocha human sacrifices and offerings submerged in Lake Titicaca near the Islands of the Sun and Moon. This example was executed in gold, but others have been found made of both silver and Spondylus shell. Drawn from photo of item on display at Museo Contisuyu, Moquegua, Peru.