In ancient Peru people were buried with personal possessions to support and protect them in the next world.
A small group of objects were donated to Brighton Museum in 1933 and recorded as being from the grave of an Inca Princess, but we don’t know if this is true.
Young people from Whitehawk Art Group used creative writing to explore questions raised by these objects. They recorded a spoken word piece which you can listen to.
The leather bag containing the burial goods
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Peru means ‘land of abundance’ in the Quechua Indian language.
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More people live in the Andes than in any other mountain range in the world.
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Peru’s Colca Canyon is the deepest canyon in the world.
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The city of Machu Picchu, built around 1450 at the height of the Inca Empire, was never discovered by the Spanish.
- Inca stonemasons cut stones to fit together so well without mortar that even a knife blade cannot fit between them.
Whitehawk Art Group with the Peruvian burial goods
Whitehawk Art Group developed this spoken work piece in response to the Peruvian burial goods in Brighton Museum. It is accompanied by some traditional flute music from the High Andes where the objects are probably from.