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ID: 7030309
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7030309
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Los Pinchudos (tomb(s))  Los Pinchudos (tomb(s))

Note: Located in a high rock cleft in one of Peru's northern cloud forests. It was a site of ceremonial burials of the little known Chachapoya (Cloud People) (flourished 800-1536 CE), contemporaries of the Inca. It was a tone-and-plaster complex of nine tombs, noted for 15th-century carved stone and mahogany figures.

Names:
Los Pinchudos (preferred,C,V)  ............ local slang for "the big penises," referring to sculptures at the site
Pinchudos, Los (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Peru (nation)  ........  Peru (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of San Martín (region (administrative division))  ............  San Martín (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Los Pinchudos (tomb(s))  ................  Los Pinchudos (tomb(s)) (P)

Place Types:
tomb(s) (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
ceremonial site (H)
Chachapoya (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Los Pinchudos..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Gwin, Tombs of Peru's Cloud People, National Geographic (2004)
Pinchudos, Los..........  [VP]
.............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................  Gwin, Tombs of Peru's Cloud People, National Geographic (2004)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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