ArtDependence | The Face of Juanita 'Girl of the Ampato' has been revealed

Thursday, November 9, 2023

A week ago the reconstruction of the face of Juanita was presented at the Museo Santuarios Andinos in Arequipa, Peru.

Swedish artist Oscar Nilsson and a team of researchers from the Center for Andean Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Catholic University of Santa Maríahave have collaborated to create a 3D reconstruction of Juanita’s face.

Back in 1995 the frozen, well preserved body of a young girl was found at Mount Ampato in Peru. She was found by the Dr Johann Reinhard, who over the coming years would find several more frozen mummies in the Andes. But this one was the first.

Juanita is the cruel evidence of the macabre religious practics of the Inca culture, called Capacocha. Young children were sacrifieced to please the mountains gods. They were choose very carefully by the priests, and treated as gods for one or two years until they were "ready" to be accepted by the gods. Juanita herself was placed at 6.300 meters height, and scientific analysis of her hair shows she was heavily intoxicated by drugs and alcohol for the last 6-8 weeks of her 15 year long life. But the cause of death was a massive blow to her head.

Main Image :Juanita at the museum, photo by Dagmara Socha

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