MAAM Salta
The highlight of the Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña are the mummies of three children, sacrificed in the Inca period on the Llullaillaco volcano (6739 m), with over 100 burial offerings.
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A selection of funerary objects from the tomb of the 15-year-old Maiden (Doncella), who may have been one of the "chosen women" (acllakuna) who had to grow up secluded and virginal until they were sacrificed to the sun god Inti.
In the right smaller display case: the headdress of white feathers that lay next to the youth and that she had obviously worn, and a female figurine with a very similar feather crown on her head.
More information, see:
MAAM: Burial Offerings
© Photo: Binder & Haupt, Universes in Universe
The highlight of the Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña are the mummies of three children, sacrificed in the Inca period on the Llullaillaco volcano (6739 m), with over 100 burial offerings.