Chapter III · The Portrait Archive / Provenance & Distribution
Plate 07  ·  of 12
Insight — Fieldwork Notes, 2024 Season

A handful of kilns fired most of the portraits we still recognize.

Fig. 4 · Portrait vessels by attributed workshop Where the surviving heads were made
0 80 160 240 320 Documented vessels 38 Huaca de la Luna 64 Caballo Muerto 122 Dos Cabezas 287 Huacas del Sol y Luna 96 Sipán 71 Pampa Grande 44 Galindo — Attributed core
Principal workshop Regional workshops n = 722 catalogued vessels
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