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andeanbeauties · 5 months

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So apparently Swedish and Polish facial reconstructionists decided to try to recreate the famous Incan "Ice Maiden" mummy dubbed "Juanita".

Truthfully, I feel like these European reconstructionists ( do not know how to re-create Andean facial features and the results ended up... terribly uncanny. So down below, with the use of photoshop, I edited the bust with more Andean Indigenous Peruvian facial features to honor the "Ice Maiden".

My version:

I made her brows straighter and longer, got rid of the cleft chin, gave her a down-turned mouth, broader lips (not small), I made her lips a little larger too and I made her nose longer/bigger and wider around the nasal Ala. I also broadened her nostrils a tad

and I made her under-eyes more puffy

I widened her bone structure

I emphasized her sideburns

My version (on top):

original (white euros created) below:

I hope that in the future, more Andean/Indigenous Peruvian facial reconstructionists have opportunities to work on revealing the faces of their kin and ancestors. We needed more andean people involved in her reconstruction.

Let me know what you think of my edits down below too!

I hope you enjoy them!

the original article can be read here:

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thepastisalreadywritten · 7 months

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By Erin Blakemore

October 25, 2023

More than 500 years ago, a 14-year-old girl was escorted up an Andean peak and sacrificed to Inca gods.

Buried on the mountain with a variety of offerings, the young woman’s body naturally mummified over time, preserving her hair, her fingernails, the colorful robes she wore on her last day.

But at some point across the centuries, her face became exposed to the elements, her features slowly vanishing over seasons of sunlight and snowfall.

Now, that long-lost face has been recovered thanks to painstaking archaeological analysis and forensic reconstruction.

A striking 3-D bust of the young woman, known today as the Ice Maiden of Ampato, is the centerpiece of a new exhibit in Peru and part of an ongoing effort to understand the drama of human sacrifice practiced in the Andes half a millennium ago.

A sacrificial offering

When National Geographic Explorer Johan Reinhard encountered the mummy, also known as Juanita, atop 21,000-foot Mount Ampato during a 1995 expedition, he knew he had discovered something spectacular.

“At first it looked like one big bundle of textiles,” Reinhard recalls. Then he saw the wizened face amid the folds of fabric.

Here was a young victim of the elusive Inca ritual known as capacocha.

Capacocha mostly involved the sacrifice of children and animals who were offered to the gods in response to natural disasters — to consolidate state power in far-flung provinces of the Inca Empire, or simply to please the deities.

The ritual played an important part in sustaining the Inca Empire. It would involve feasts and grand processions to accompany the children, who appear to have been chosen for their beauty and physical perfection.

Being selected for sacrifice, researchers believe, would have considered a deep honor by the child’s family and community.

Most of the information we have on capacocha, however, is second hand, notes Dagmara Socha, an archaeologist with the Center for Andean Studies at the University of Warsaw who studies the ritual and commissioned the facial reconstruction of the Ice Maiden of Ampato.

“No European colonist ever saw the ceremony,” she explains.

Despite gaps in the historical record, the high-altitude archaeological finds of more than a dozen Inca children on Ampato and other mountains point provide critical evidence for what happened during these rituals.

The means of sacrifice varied, perhaps due to customs related to specific gods. Some children were buried alive or strangled; others had their hearts removed.

The Ice Maiden’s life ended with a single blunt-force blow to the back of the skull.

In search of the Ice Maiden

Oscar Nilsson knows that skull intimately: He spent months with a replica of it in his Stockholm studio, eventually fashioning a sculpture of the 14-old-girl that, glimpsed from afar, almost seems alive.

It’s a two-step process, says the Swedish archaeologist and sculptor.

First, Nilsson immerses himself in the world of his subject with an archaeologist’s eye for detail, digesting as much data as possible to understand what she might have looked like.

Even without a mummified face, he can extrapolate the likely depth of the facial tissue that once draped over those bones, using everything from CT scans to DNA analyses to information about diet and disease to make educated guesses about the individual’s face.

Then came the handiwork. Nilsson printed a 3-D replica of the Ice Maiden’s skull, plugging wooden pegs into its surface to guide the depth and placement of each hand-crafted, plasticine clay muscle.

Eerie eyes, masseter muscles, a nose, the delicate rope-like tissues that constitute a human face: each was added in turn.

After making a silicone mold of the bust, he added hundreds of individual hairs and pores in shades of brown and pink.

It took ten weeks.

Following the Inca Gods

The result, wrapped in robes woven by local women from Peru's Centro de Textiles Tradicionales, is the main attraction at “Capacocha: Following the Inca Gods” at the Museo Santuarios Andinos in Arequipa, Peru through November 18.

The reconstruction will be displayed alongside the Ice Maiden’s mummy, accompanied by the stories of 15 other children selected for capacocha atop Ampato and other Andean peaks.

Their ages range from 3 to about 13. The mummies and skeletal remains of several are featured as 3-D models at the exhibition, which also showcases holographs of some of the sacred items buried alongside them.

These natural mummies offer scientists tantalizing clues about their last days.

When Socha and colleagues conducted toxicological and forensic analyses of the remains of a toddler and four six-to-seven-year-old victims featured in the exhibition, they found they were well cared for in the months before their sacrifice.

They were fed a steady diet of coca leaves, ayahuasca vine, and alcohol in the weeks before their deaths — not as much to intoxicate them as to keep them sedated and anxiety-free as the timeline hurtled toward their sacrifice.

“We were really surprised by the toxicology results,” says Socha.

“It wasn’t only a brutal sacrifice. The Inca also wanted the children to be in a good mood. It was important to them that they go happily to the gods.”

High altitude, psychogenic substances, the spectacular view, the knowledge the afterlife was near — all must have made for an astonishing ceremony, says Reinhard.

“The whole phenomenon must have been overpowering.”

During the last phase of his reconstruction, Nilsson spent hours contemplating and attempting to capture the young girl’s presence 500 years after her death.

The result is both unsettlingly realistic and jarringly personal.

“She was an individual,” the forensic reconstructionist says.

“She must have understood her life would end on the mountaintop in a couple of weeks. We can only hope that she believed in the afterworld herself.”

For Reinhard, finally seeing the face of the girl he carried down the mountain on his back decades ago brought the Ice Maiden’s story full circle.

“It brings her back to life,” he says. The reconstruction brings the focus as much to her culture and daily life as to her spectacular death.

But Nilsson never forgot the way the Ice Maiden died, even as he brought her to life through his reconstruction.

More than anything, he says, he wanted to capture a sense of being frozen — a nod not just to her icy, mummified future but to a girl teetering on the edge of eternity, though still very much alive.

“She knew she was supposed to smile, to express pride,” he says. “Proud to be chosen. But still very, very afraid.”

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teatreeoilgirl · 7 months

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Reconstruction of the face fron "mummy Juanita"

#eigenes #mummy Juanita #peruvian mummy #inca mummy #incan #inca Girl #peruvian #history

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theemperorsnewfanblog · 8 months

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wet hair 'Lina

#Malina #malina the emperor's new school #the emperor's new school #Cartoon #Cartoon girl #Disney #Disney girl #Disney channel #tenfbscreenshot #the emperor's new groove #Inca girl

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boobaloof · 1 year

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Some flowers for the birthday girl, because she deserves it ✨

Happy birthday Aloy!

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pureanonofficial · 1 year

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

2x04 - Inca Mummy Girl

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incadigitalart · 20 days

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Searching for myself

#Inca

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mothmans-wedding-photographer · 8 months

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IDEA: What if Ampata, the Incan mummy girl, was allowed to survive and joined the Scooby gang?

Like, they let Anya, a former VENGEANCE DEMON, join them, a woman who killed and tortured people for fun. Like, she stopped doing that though so it's fine I guess lmao

So obviously Ampata couldn't still be killing people to live, so how would she survive?

Vampires.

Vampires have eternal youth, and they're all evil and soulless. Buffy could capture the vampires, and Ampata could suck their lifeforce. Win-win! Ethical mummy demon!

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #inca mummy girl #buffy summers

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saintvamp · 9 months

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We all joke about Xander and how he's a creep but dear god that kid is getting sexually assaulted at least twice per season.

#mantis inca mummy girl every woman in Sunnydale the frat boys in reptile boy #faith... Anya in some extent.... Angel and Spike in school hard #dracula....#it's very....#btvs

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magicalgirloftheday · 1 year

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✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the afternoon is: Inca Rose from Magical Girls (GREE)!✧・ﾟ:*

#Inca Rose #Magical Girls (GREE)#mobage #discontinued #pink hair #pink #magical girl #magical girl of the day #wings #mahou shoujo

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heftbyjapanesebreakfast · 9 months

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more than anything i desperately wish to experience what it was like to be a cave man or an ancient mesopotamian girl or see the americas before colonization or go to a club in the 70s. like i want so badly to see the world before i was born it's physically painful

#like what kind of drama did the homo sapiens have going on???#what did everyone think about the first cave paintings #what did inca girls chat about #m

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herinsectreflection · 1 year

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Rewatching with someone who has totally fresh eyes can be really enlightening sometimes. My partner and I reached Inca Mummy Girl last night - an episode I've previously written off as not having much to say - and they were talking about how much they liked Ampata, and that she was their favourite villain so far specifically because they had the most sympathetic motive. Which I hadn't really appreciated before, but it's true - Ampata is one of the first villains in this stretch of the series, along with Spike, Drusilla, Ford, Ethan, etc, that are more Characters with Motivations than they are pure symbols of some metaphorical challenge that Buffy is facing, all of whom set the stage for Angelus. And as the first villain we see that is clearly a version of Buffy that makes different choices under similar circumstances, she sets the stage for Drusilla, Faith, and Glory too.

#inca mummy girl #small thoughts

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rita-moreno · 1 year

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ARA CELI as Ampata Gutierrez/Inca Mummy Girl BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 2.04 “Inca Mummy Girl”

#dailybtvs #slayerdaily #buffysource #latineheroes #femalegifsource #femalecharacters #dailyflicks #btvsedit #buffyedit #filmtv #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #ara celi #ampata gutierrez #inca mummy girl #ritasgifs #ma'am date me instead please

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spotsupstuff · 10 months

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wait a damn minute.

"mocinha" does this imply that nish and his city is located in the serotonin take's equivalent to brazil or am i going crazy

TECHNICALLY he should be located in Bolivia according to the map, with Moon, Pebbles and Wind being the proper Brazilians, but i told myself "if only just for the laughs. just for the laughs i'll close my eye a lil so he can be in Brazil with them" so ye! i specifically looked up portuguese for Brazil benefits

enjoy having Nish (n the other three) over there, brazilian

#spot says stuff #rw #the canon groups placement is heavily influenced by the location of the inca ruins n then i wanted the rock siblings to be in the-#-amazon forest specifically n told myself that Nish has to be close by cuz of Hunter. so thats how we got here #n then i thought ''kinda sad that Nish cant be in some meme country'' → florida doesnt exist cuz i tried my best to just delete north-#-america (i have had fucking ENough im a proud US exclusionist) and australia wouldnt work. so my last shot was brazil gjkdsmkclds #if u have affectionate terms for young girls locked n loaded in ur brazilian noggin... -extends hand- hand em over por favor...#ill use them wisely n lovingly whenever the barman shows up i prommy........

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inconsistentlywrittensoul · 3 months

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random 'Inca Mummy Girl' thoughts:

In the museum, Buffy is disappointed her friends think she solves all her problems with violence. Then later, Giles agrees to let her go to the dance to end their training session, because when she trains while angry she unintentionally hurts him. Her response: "Yay! I win :)". Don't know if I have anything to say about that, but I'm definitely paying more attention to Buffy's characterisation on this rewatch, and noticing more of her Faith-like traits.

I think of Xander's jealousy over Buffy as a Season One thing, but it seems to be sticking around, and I am extremely tired of it. Hope it doesn't last much longer.

The Scoobies' assumption that Ampata can translate an ancient Incan relic just because they're South American is so wild I struggle not to read it as a joke at their expense. (Though given the show's approach to other cultures - as exemplified by this episode especially - it almost certainly isn't.)

It's interesting that this episode doesn't try to play itself as a mystery - the audience is never kept in the dark about what's happening, even as the Scoobies are. It's much to the episode's benefit - it allows Ampata to be an actual character, where a mystery would likely keep her at too much of a distance. It doesn't just make her sympathetic - it makes her a viewpoint character, which makes the Buffy parallels much more tangible.

Speaking of which, this episode has a Garth Marenghi approach to subtext, but honestly I kind of like that. It's nice to have subtext even I can notice sometimes.

I didn't remember going in that Oz first appeared in this episode, so that was a nice surprise. But then seeing Jonathan was even more of one - I really wasn't expecting to see him so soon. Strange that such a small role became a recurring character when so many Sunnydale students appear in one episode and then are immediately forgotten about, but I guess he does give a good, distinctive performance.

Sorry Buffy, but "I'll say one thing for you Incan mummies - you don't kiss and tell," is just a terrible quip. And you can tell Buffy was thinking of it on the journey - as she runs to the museum she's thinking to herself 'I need to say something funny about kissing, I guess?', and she does a bad job. I think she needs to take some improv classes or something if she's gonna keep doing this.

#there's no particular reason i'm doing this for this episode #just felt like jotting down my thoughts #btvs #btvs rewatch #btvs s2 #notes #Inca Mummy Girl

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eopederson · 1 year

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Niña frente a un muro inca, Cusco, 2010.

#archaeology #stone wall #inca #girl #cusco #perú #2010 #photographers on tumblr

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