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Diaguita Pottery

This pottery is the most beautifull, finest and best decorated of all the ones found in the territory. It distinguible by its painting, tipical shapes and its specials technique of decoration. If it well appears during the Tiahuanaco period, it had an own development after the decadence and desaperience of that civilization. It absorved certain elements of the Chinca culture, being developed in a tipical way, creating an own and different type of art.
The ceramics had several phases, at first was characterized by its crossings and staggered geometric designs. Later than the human forms appered, worked always on a red botton by red and white paintings.
In the classic period, the "jarros pato" (duck vessels) that had a simple shape and handle decorations in relief, appeared.
Finally, the animal and advanced designs sucha as triangles and "tableros de ajedrés" (chessboards) appered under a strong Inca influence.

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