Saturday, July 14, 1973 THE SUMMER ©A ILY Page Five Selling of ancient artifacts f lourishes ,, By WILLIAM H. HEATH Associated Press Writer CHANCAY, Peru - "Hey, mis- ter, do you wont to boy old pots, cloth, necklacesc shoots the crowd of children, salesmen for one of Per ],olides ad mot prafitbhle buiinesse - trade in plondered pre-Conambian arti- facts. Ce to uy hoie,' irges a little girl, elbwing her co a- panions aside to point to a hut of woven caee material, one of ses- era in a oor farnming commun- ity 44 milt-srarth of Lima, the c pital. INS'IDE, a smiling Indian wo- man ushers the prospective buy- er into a tiny room, its d i r t floor crowded with dusty cera- mic objects, textiles, stone carv- ings and wri-eate, wooden in- ages of lang-fargatten dieties. Although some are well-made forgeries, the majority of the artif-les on sole are genuine, col- lected and sold by grave robbers who pillage the tombs of the In- dian cultures that flourished long before the arrival of the Spanish conquerers. A youthful guide requires only a few cents to take the visitor to a nearby hillside, pockmarked by decades of digging and littered with human skulls, potsherds and scraps of cloth that once formed funeral bundles. "MY FATHER and my uncles used to dig here," explains the child, gesturing at the 50 acre site. "But they say there's noth- ing left anymore. Now they go to another place." Sale of pre-Columbian artifacts, mainly pottery vessejs, or "hua- cos," is a profitable business in Peru. The goods come from hun- dreds of archeological sites, mainly along the arid coast. Many are known only to the grave robbers. Authorities complain that in- discriminate digging by thieves, amateur archeologists and curio- sity seekers deprives national museums of priceless objects and causes irreparable damage to ar- cheological sites. SMALL-TIME traders concen- trate on sales to tourists a n d foreign residents. Large-scale op- erations, however, are aimed at the lucrative and illegal export market. Private collectors, art galleries and museums' in the United States and Europe are the principal buyers. Although trading in antiquities is not illegal in Peru, their ex- cavation and export is strictly prohibited by a law stating that such articles belong to the state. ENFORCEMENT of the laws is difficult and expensive be- cause of the large number of archeological sites. Officials esti- mate that hundreds of pre-Colum- bia, articles still leave the coun- try annually, a few in the suit- cases of toorists, and diplomats and many more in crates and dis- guised as mehandise. Ma st popaltir are the intricate- It painted vessels of the Nazca culttre of srthern Peru or those of the Mochica culture of the northern coast, where clay uten- sil: often were i :fhioned in the shape of huan and animal fig- ures. A delicate, pitlyirtmcd pot bur- ied aad preserved in the dry sand of Pcru's coastal desert 1,000 years sgo often looks as though it hAd been made yester- day and will bring several hun- dred dllars in New York, Lon- don or Paris. SOME, in fact, were made only yesterday. Fakes often are so good that it takes an expert to spot the fraud. A Peruvian or foreign resident who wishes to collect antiquities may do so, provided he does not dig them up himself, registers them with the authorities and does not try to take them out of the country. Despite prohibitions, digging continues. Grave robbers, often poor farmers who supplement their income with the sale of treasures, customarily use long steel rods to probe the soft de- sert sand in search ofhburial sit- es. 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