Stone Carvings

This finely detailed, hand-crafted stone carving represents a miniature Andean farm complete with animals, patio, buildings and a side altar with circles. This piece is impressive for the detail and close carving of the figures. Creamy marble-like stone talismans such as this were once used among the Quechua and Aymara people for ensuring the reproductive fertility of domestic animals. Called illas or canopas in Quechua and mullas in Aymara, these are small figurative charms used to ensure fertility, love, and other of life's benefits. Those which are made for the purpose of increasing the fecundity and health of flocks of herd animals are also sometimes called chacras, that word meaning field or pasture and the charms being activated by burial in a field or pasture. Learn More

The chakana, or Inca Cross, is a powerful symbol of the Andes' ancient cultures and is considered the most complete sacred geometrical design for the Incas. This symbol is often seen at ancient sites and sacred centers though out the Andes of Peru and Bolivia.

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The chakana, or Inca Cross, is a powerful symbol of the Andes' ancient cultures and is considered the most complete sacred geometrical design for the Incas. This symbol is often seen at ancient sites and sacred centers though out the Andes of Peru and Bolivia.

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The chakana, or Inca Cross, is a powerful symbol of the Andes' ancient cultures and is considered the most complete sacred geometrical design for the Incas. This symbol is often seen at ancient sites and sacred centers though out the Andes of Peru and Bolivia.

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The chakana, or Inca Cross, is a powerful symbol of the Andes' ancient cultures and is considered the most complete sacred geometrical design for the Incas. This symbol is often seen at ancient sites and sacred centers though out the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Learn More

An cute and clever carving of the sacred service animal of the Inca and their descendents, the llama. Used for toting and for its warm fur, this llama is carefully cut from Machu Pichu stone. Made in Peru. Learn More

What else could this hand carved onyx couple represent but fertility? We lovingly refer to them as Pachamama and Pachapapa. Use these figures as you invoke your feminine and masculine energies. Peru.

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This pipe is skillfully carved from stone found in and around Peru referred to as Machu Pichu stone. The bowl is a carved head. Additional carving is applied to the stem. Some variation in patterns occur due to the hand made nature of the pipe. Peru. Learn More

The whiskers on the face of this pipe's carving on the bowl suggest it to be one of the revered animals in the Incan cosmology, the jaguar, ortorongo. The pipe itself is skillfully carved from stone found in and around Peru referred to as Machu Pichu stone. Additional carving appears on the stem. Some variation in patterns occur due to the hand made nature of the pipe. Peru. Learn More