JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.Two caches were recovered at Pikillacta, the largest Huari state installation (A.D. 550-1000) in the southern Andean highlands; each contained 40 richly garbed votive turquoise fzgurines. The fzgurines are analyzed in terms of their production, use, and deposition as well as their overall morphology. To the extent possible, the rank associated with the costumes worn by each fzgure is also considered. Reference is made to Inca apparel and its potential for interpreting Huari official garments. Because the number 40 also held special importance in Inca state organization as an administrative unit or division, the Inca example provides concepts of administration vital to the interpretation of the fzgurines. A more unusual source-origin myths associated with the Chimor Kingdom-supports the relation between turquoisefzgurines and ancestor worship. I argue that the stonefzgurines embody qualities and convey concepts that are central to Andean political administration, and that they are intimately tied into the web of ancestral cults through which kinship, hierarchy, and inheritance were determined.Pikillacta es la mas grande instalacion estatal huari (A.D. 550-1000) ubicada en la sierra sur peruana. En este sitio se encontraron dos depositos de ofrenda, cada uno conteniendo 40figurillas humanas talladas en turquesa, con prendas de vestir grabadas. El analisis de estas ofrendas se hace en terminos de los contextos de produccion, uso y deposicion de lasfigurillas, de su morfologla, y hasta donde es posible, del rango.asociado con las prendas representadas en cada figurina. No obstante que se mencione las prendas incas y que estas tienen buenas posibilidades para la interpretacion de las prendas oficiales huari; el numero 40 tambien habrla tenido una importancia especial en la organizacion estatal inca como una unidad de division administrativa. El ejemplo inca provee conceptos de administracion crlticos para la interpretacion de las fzgurillas; mientras que un recurso poco comunmitos de origen del estado chimor-apoya la relacion entrefzgurillas de turquesa y los cultos ancestrales. Aqul se argumenta que estasfigurillas contienen cualidades y proyectan conceptos centrales sobre la administracion andina, y serlan estas fzgurillas las que estan Intimamente ligadas al complejo sistema de cultos ancestrales, mediantes los cuales se sustentaron las relaciones de parentesco, diferenciacion social y la herencia.In this paper I address the relations between political office, ritual legitimation, and aspects of specialized production in an early state that lacked any known form of writing. The site of Huari (Figure 1), an urban center whose architectural core alone is estimated to have covered 1000-...
