Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . ce from his accounts ofPisac and Ollantaytambo that would adequatelydescribe Choqquequirau and its surroundings. Likethe buildings of Ollantaytambo, these are nearlyperfect, lacking only the roof. The two-story houses had an exterior measure-ment of 42 by 38 feet. Similar ones measured bySquier near the temple of Viracocha north of LakeTiticaca, were also divided into two equal apart-ments and measured 46 by 38 feet. The fronts ofeach building ha
Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . ce from his accounts ofPisac and Ollantaytambo that would adequatelydescribe Choqquequirau and its surroundings. Likethe buildings of Ollantaytambo, these are nearlyperfect, lacking only the roof. The two-story houses had an exterior measure-ment of 42 by 38 feet. Similar ones measured bySquier near the temple of Viracocha north of LakeTiticaca, were also divided into two equal apart-ments and measured 46 by 38 feet. The fronts ofeach building have two entrances and the Interiorof every apartment is ornamented with Irregularniches within which some of the stucco still walls are Irregular but usually about three feetthick, and are composed of unhewn fragments oflava cemented together with a stiff clay. In general, all the walls appear to have been builtentirely of stone and clay. The construction, com-pared with that of the Inca palaces in Cuzco, is /|^*iid/;*fk^X#>. #^/M*>***f-*^- ^#SS:i .?iim i.,i4» j«.uiiiu, •;;^,, ^ ^^mf/fJ^s. General Plan O F- Lower Plaza — ChoqqucquiRau Drawn by Dr^sdals from Meaaure-ments a.^dP^lotographs faken ,,IO, 1909 Bingham and Clarence Hay Esa CHOQQUEQUIRAU 311 extremely rude and rough and no two niches or doorsare exactly ahke. Occasionally the lintels of thedoors were made of timber, the builders not havingtaken the trouble to provide stones wide enough forthe purpose. One such lintel was still standing, thewood being of a remarkably hard texture. Probably the ruins to-day present a more strikingappearance than they did when they were coveredwith thatched roofs. Ornamental niches which constitute a character-istic and constant feature in Inca architecture ap-pear on the interior of all the Choqquequirau build-ings and on the exterior of a few. Some of those onthe outside are of the re-entering variety. Those
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