. In an elegant 17th-century house in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador, visitors can find some 5,000 archeological masterworks created in a range of raw materials by ancient peoples. The house, the "Casa del Alabado," or House of Praise, passed its name to the museum, [...]
. The charms and amulets presented in this book offer a unique opportunity to explore the way people in Pre-Columbian Ecuador interpreted their lives. The choice of material--metals, shells, fired clay, gold--reflect different meanings and religious ideas. Taken alone every [...]