Paleopathology Case 43

This bronze figurine from the Cuzco area depicts a medical problem. There was a late Inca custom that, instead of sacrificing a person, a bronze or ceramic effigy was buried with an important man who'd died.

Submitted by Dr. Marvin J. Allison

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Updated February 23, 2006