This volume contains three monographs from the series of Collected Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archeology. Johannes Wilbert looks at the use and decoration of spindles, focusing on those from Ecuador. Peter Roe examines the Chavin seriations, with numerous illustrations and a pullout chart, and Elizabeth Benson considers the motif of felines and men in Mochica art.

Johannes Wilbert is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Read More by Johannes Wilbert:

• Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians

Read More by Elizabeth P. Benson:

• Three Maya Relief Panels at Dumbarton Oaks
• Mesoamerican Writing Systems
• Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America
• Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America
• The Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference
• The Olmec and Their Neighbors: Essays in Memory of Matthew W. Stirling