Among the relatively few objects in the limited category of things that are at once magical, aesthetic, and technological is the mirror. In addition to its sharing of all these qualities in the Chinese and Japanese traditions, the mirror had a similar multivalency in the pre-Columbian New World.

Among the relatively few objects in the limited category of things that are at once magical, aesthetic, and technological is the mirror. In addition to its sharing of all these qualities in the Chinese and Japanese traditions, the mirror had a similar multivalency in the pre-Columbian New World.

Mace heads were a common form from at least the Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE–600 CE). The first examples appear in stone, associated with Chavín and Salinar cultures. The succeeding Moche and Nasca developed copper mace heads, which they depict in painted scenes of hand-to-hand combat on ceramic vessels.

Early Horizon Chavín style depictions of animals often combine features of different species, such as avian and terrestrial, to form composite beings that likely represent mythological creatures. The small ears, circular eyes, and projecting muzzle with fangs on this head suggest a fox. Concentric circles such as tho

The ceramics most closely associated with the Chavín style are monochromatic vessels with textured surfaces. Vessels of similar style have been found in the Chongoyape vicinity of the Lambayeque Valley as well as in the Jequetepeque and Zano valleys.

Tembladera was an ancient burial site in the Jequetepeque Valley on Peru's north coast. Several dozen hollow figurines of ovoid shape have been recovered there, which likely functioned as funerary offerings. Uniquely costumed and decorated with abstract features, each figurine imparts a sense of concealed identity.