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The wood carving of this culture, can be apreciated,
on the tablets used in rituals and ceremonies by the
priests of the culture of San pedro that inhaled a dust
with hallucinatory and stimulating efects. The "Complex
of Rapé" is a game in wich the related pieces
practiced the breathing of allucinogen that, generally,
are formed by the following pieces:
a) The tablet, that is a small bowl, generally made
of wood, of a rectangular shape. Its edges are slightly
elevated and is generally suplied with a prolongation
or handle with carved or sculpted figures and, sometimes,
with semi precious stones inlayed;
b) The tube for inhaling Rapé, made of bone or
wood, that is composed by a mouth piece and the tube,
often with sculpted figures that are practicaly alike
with the tablet;
c) Cactus spines that have been found in various ocassions
inside the tubes, that might have been used for cleaning
the tube;
d) Small wooden mortars, probably destined to the milling
of ingredients;
e) Small recipients or wooden boxes, of wood, ceramics
or sometimes bags, maybe destined to keep dust or ingredients;
f) Wooden or bone spatula, that wood have served to
take the Rapé out of it´s recipients or
for leaving it in the tablet
g) A wool bag used to keep these implements.
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