Bulletin . SURFACE. Figure 12.—Ground plan and cross section of Recuay style gallery. (After Bennett, 1944, fig. 14.) 50 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. B. Bull. 143 Tower.—Burial towers called chullpas, of stone and adobe, are aunique feature of the Lake Titicaca region in southern Peru andBolivia (pi. 9, toiy). The towers are both round and square. Someare made of rough stone, others of carefully dressed stone blocks,and still others of adobe bricks. The towers contain a small burialcompartment in the lower half which is entered through a narrowdoor. The upper half may be solid or it too
Bulletin . SURFACE. Figure 12.—Ground plan and cross section of Recuay style gallery. (After Bennett, 1944, fig. 14.) 50 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B. A. B. Bull. 143 Tower.—Burial towers called chullpas, of stone and adobe, are aunique feature of the Lake Titicaca region in southern Peru andBolivia (pi. 9, toiy). The towers are both round and square. Someare made of rough stone, others of carefully dressed stone blocks,and still others of adobe bricks. The towers contain a small burialcompartment in the lower half which is entered through a narrowdoor. The upper half may be solid or it too may contain a smallcompartment, probably intended for offerings. The towers are com-monly found in the ruins of villages. Urn.—Urn burial was not practiced by the Southern Hunters andis virtually absent in the Central Andes. Otherwise, it has a widedistribution in Amazonia, Venezuela, Colombia, Northwest Argen-tina, eastern Bolivia, and North Chile. Urns are of many shapes, andthere is likewise great variation in t
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