This small turquoise figurine was most likely part of a larger offering consisting of many such figurines in combination with spondylus shells or other objects. An example of such an offering by the Huari can be admired in the Museo de América in Madrid. A total of three such sacrificial deposits were found, all in Piccillacta, a Huari site in the highlands of Peru, near the later Inca capital Cusco. Two of them contained 57 of these figurines. Each is dressed differently, some may be female representations, but that is not clearly identifiable. There are different interpretations of what these figurines could represent. By now, the most common seems to be that these are the mythical ancestors, the founders of the Huari empire.