• Figure 3.5. Shown here are two of the four balanzas found so far at Cerro Azul. (Top) An example found by Kroeber in Burial K3; the items to be weighed were suspended in the nets. (Redrawn from Kroeber 1937: Plate LXXXV, No. 2). (Bottom) An example found by the University of Michigan in a kincha house built sometime after Structure D at Cerro Azul was abandoned (Marcus 2008: Figs. 5.5, 5.6, 5.9, and 5.10). 

Drawing of a balanza found by Kroeber and photograph of a second balanza found later, both at Cerro Azul

From The Burials of Cerro Azul, Peru by Joyce Marcus

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