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Juan Polo De Ondegardo (1906: 198) wrote in 1559 about the Andean practice of cutting open various animals-including guinea pigs-to study their entrails for good or bad omens; guinea pigs for sacrifice were to be domestic, not wild(Polo de Ondegardo 1906:226).
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Sandweiss, Daniel H. and Elizabeth S. Wing
1997 Ritual Rodents: The Guinea Pigs of Chincha, Peru. Journal of Field
Archaeology 24(1): 47-58.
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stirrup spout vessel - Andean artifact
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