Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Film footage from Guardian of Guano
Written and directed by Ana Elisa Sotelo van Oordt, 2014

Line drawing from a Moche vessel (AD 100–800) showing a boat carrying prisoners, paddled by a supernatural being
Drawing: Moche Archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.

Line drawing from a Moche vessel (AD 100–800) showing a sea lion hunt
Drawing: Moche Archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.

Photo of Moche vessel (AD 100–800), Museo Larco, Lima, Peru, ML003202

Line drawing from a Moche vessel (AD 100–800) showing prisoners being led to sacrifice
Drawing: Moche Archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.

Photos of workers extracting Guano on the Chincha islands, Peru, 1865.
From The New York Public Library
digitalcollections.nypl.org

Photo of Don Manuel Huamanchumo Piminchumo, about 1970, courtesy of Percy Valladares Huamanchumo

Illustrations by Amaro Serruche Agurto from Histories Del Abuelo by Percy Valladares Humanachumo (2020), pub Lima: Ediciones Rafael Valdez E.I.R.L.