Wooden panel covered in plaster or gesso and painted. Tabla shows people in local traditional dress being burned alive in a bonfire. State police in camouflage are also shown in the scene. The text states that the painting shows the extrajudicial execution of supposed ‘Shining Path’ insurgents. Among the executed are numerous innocent local Ayacuchans.

Wooden panel covered in plaster or gesso and painted. The tabla shows the Peruvian State forces confronting ‘Shining Path’ guerrilla insurgents in the high plains of Ayacucho. The image shows men in Sinchi uniform as well as people in local traditional dress. A low flying helicopter painted with state camouflage is firing on everyone. The image is of destruction and bloody death. However, it also contains images of the local landscape that show continuity in painting style from the house beams (3289/60-61); a dog steals a piece of meat from the fire, chickens roam the hillside. This is the culmination of the armed conflict and shows the confusion involved in the identities of attackers and victims.

Painted house beam. Slice of a tree trunk, covered in plaster on the front, with the bark left on the back. The part that has been plastered is painted with natural pigments. The beam would be read bottom to top. At the bottom is one of the patron saints; the Virgin of Asuncion. In phrases divided by various patterns, such as flowers and llamas, the beam depicts a range of daily activities such as sowing seeds and weaving. The persons represented are named in writing. At the top of this beam is the sun.

Wooden panel covered in plaster or gesso and painted. Tabla shows the assassination of community authorities by ‘Shining Path’ insurgents. The men with rifles are wearing balaclavas. This episode in the series evidences the reaction of the Maoist group to the destruction of the local community centre by State military. This act constituted a counter-threat.

Wooden panel covered in plaster or gesso and painted. Tabla shows men in military camouflage, raiding the Empresa Comunal de Sarhua, the community centre at Sarhua, which held community records and cultural knowledge. The image also shows residents from Sarhua (‘Shining Path’ supporters?) climbing a fence to escape the State military - known as Sinchis. The people watching the destruction of the Empresa Comunal are visibly shocked and saddened. They argue amongst themselves. US trained Peruvian counterterrorist police are shown looting and destroying the autonomous community building at Sarhua.

Wooden panel covered in plaster or gesso and painted. Tabla shows the village square in Sarhua. People in traditional Ayacuchan dress stand in a large circle, listening and applauding a group of people holding rifles and red flags decorated with the hammer and sickle. There is a short text in Spanish explaining the episode in the Maoist ‘Shining Path’ armed conflict. The Shining Path insurgents make promises of much needed economic help. Initially the terrorists were met with support from the local communities in Ayacucho.

Painted house beam. Object is a slice of a tree trunk, covered in white plaster on the front, with the bark left on the back. The part that has been plastered is painted with natural pigments. The beam would be read bottom to top. At the bottom is one of the patron saints; San Juan Bautista. In phrases divided by various patterns, such as flowers and llamas, the beam depicts a range of daily activities such as sowing seeds and weaving. The persons represented are named in writing. At the top of the beam is the sun.

Retablo altar. The outside of the box is light yellow with large floral motifs on the sides and on the inside and outside of the doors. Inside are two scenes with small plaster figures vibrantly painted. At top is a nativity scene showing a large baby laying in a manger surrounded by the parents and people praying, and a man playing a small guitar. Donkeys and sheep surround the manger, and cherubim protrude from the side walls. The rear panel of the scene is painted as a dark blue sky with a large gold star at centre. Below this scene is a smaller one showing people in traditional clothing attending an outdoor church service, with figures playing musical instruments. Cattle mingle in the crowd. A large cactus sits to one side, and there is a small building in a back corner. The side walls are white and decorated with multicoloured dots. The outer structure is a box made of wood with a pediment above two doors that open on leather hinges, contained by thread that passes through metal rings to keep them from opening too far.

Clay bull. Animal stands on short cone-shaped legs, neck tall with small head held high, and curving horns above protruding ears. Eyes are etched into the side of the head while snout holds incised mouth and nostrils and a tongue raised to lick nose. Stomach is rounded and hangs low. On top of rump is a hole surrounded by a high neck leading into the hollow centre of the vessel. Between this and neck of cow arches a handle. Object is decorated overall with light markings of leafy tree branches and lines with a scalloped design.

Cylindrical cup with abstract painted plants (possible a cactus design). Four panels in upper half alternating cream and red on black and cream and black on orange, two on lower half in cream and orange on black paint. Contains a geometrical figure on a flat base of an arrow with some square designs. Burnished surface. Incomplete restoration.