Small anthropomorphic (male and female) and zoomorphic figurines were produced in Incan times for ritual offerings. They were offered to huacas (sacred places) or used during the Capacocha ceremony; several of them were found in mountaintop shrines. In the Quechuan languages of South America, a huaca or wak’a is an object that represents something revered. The term huaca can refer to natural locations, such as immense rocks. The Quechua people traditionally believed every object has a physical presence and two camaquen (spirits), one to create it and another to animate it. They would invoke its spirits for the object to function.
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