Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Engraved slab fragment, accession number 4-3580, described as Part of a sculptured stone slab, showing animal and part of human head in relief. 16½ inches by 15½ inches by 6 inches. Photo: 15-2480. According to Theodore D. McCown's 1945 work, "Pre-Incaic Huamachuco: Survey and Excavations in the Region of Huamachuco and Cajabamba" (page 302): "The specimen (4-3580) shown at L in plate 17, is part of a large slab of fine-grained granite porphyry which Uhle was told had been found in a ruined house at Purpukala hacienda, east of Huamachuco, not far from the earthwork of La Cuchilla. The human-headed figure in the center wears a large earplug, and what appear to be the fingers of the right hand are to be noted just below the chin. The crouching animal figure alongside the head is that of a puma. The detailed carving to bring out the features in both the human and the animal head is flat, although the major masses stand out in high relief; the whole block has been well polished. The damage to the specimen has been such that a little more than half is missing. The original dimensions must have been 680 by 385 mm. The lower edge appears to me to be an original surface; if the human figure had a body, it was on a separate stone slab. "The specimen has analogues in other sections of Peru. A central human head, or human figure is flanked by two feline figures which face each other. Tello illustrates several of these in 'Wira-Kocha,' where the locations are given as from Aija, Cajamarquilla in Huaras, and Carhuas. The examples which he shows are mainly lintels from above doorways.