Title: Andean culture history
Identifier: andurehis00benn (find matches)
Year: 1964 (1960s)
Authors: Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953; Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982
Subjects: Incas; Indians of South America
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. , Published for the American Museum of Natural History (by) Natural History Press
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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The Central Andes page 175 : “…sometimes the mummies of the important deceased were removed from their burial vaults and carried in the parades. The ceremonies started at sunrise and…”
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Fig. 18. Musical instruments: panpipes, flutes, whistles, and a horn. “…closed at sundown with a ritual bath for all the per- formers. Special chants and songs were composed for the dancers who were specially trained groups with elab- orate masks and costumes of skins or feathers. The music, all in the pentatonic scale, was provided by skin drums, bronze gongs, copper bells, bone flutes, pan- pipes, trumpets, and whistles (Fig. 18). Apart from the hierarchy of priests in the state re-…”

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