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.

Woven table runner with bands of solid colours and repeating designs running down the length of the textile. From the centre band of orange, repeating on each side: medium pink, red, light green, dark green, and then band of repeating rectangles of light blue and light purple with various animals designs, bordered with thin bands of white with a brown wave throughout. Then yellow, pink, brown. The edge of the textile is finished with embroidered diamonds.

Poncho composed of two rectangular pieces of woven fabric, sewn together on one edge with a head hole at centre. Short knotted fringe lines both sides. Two horizontal bands decorate both front and back; a thin band near top, and thick band near the bottom. The garment slightly tapers in.

Finely hand woven blanket composed of three separately woven pieces which have been stitched together. The blanket is divided into seven wide bands of solid colours running down the length. At centre is a wide band of gold yellow, then on either side is a deep red, then beige, and then a deep brownish-purple on the outer edges.