Louise Deglin is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Art History at UCLA specializing in the Arts of the Indigenous Americas. Her doctoral project, “Making Things Their Own: Artistic Practices in the Wari Empire” investigates issues of making, materiality, and corporeality in the first Andean empire (AD 600-1000) across multiple media.
Deglin received her B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the École du Louvre in Paris, followed by an M.A. from the same institution in Museology and Art History. She wrote her two M.A. theses on the art of the Wayana and Wayapi of French Guyana. Deglin has conducted fieldwork in French Guyana and Peru, and interned at numerous museums including the Louvre Museum (Paris), the Museu do Indio (Rio de Janeiro), and LACMA (Los Angeles).
As an emerging scholar at the crossroads of Art History and Archaeology she is a member of the Andean Lab at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and is currently managing the Andean Working Group at UCLA. She has presented her research at several conferences, and has received numerous fellowships in support of her ongoing research.
![INFO Pututu is the Quechua term for conch shell horns used in the Andes to call across long distances, for which reason they would have been useful for Inca chaski messengers to announce their arrival. Pututus were most commonly made out of Strombus Lobatus galeatus traded from the Pacific Ocean. Although pututus are mentioned frequently in colonial accounts among the instruments played by the Incas, they had been in use since much earlier and many examples have been excavated at earlier sites, such as Chavín de Huántar.
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INFO Pututu es el término en Quechua para referirse a las conchas utilizadas en los Andes para comunicarse a larga distancia, razón por la que habrían sido de gran utilidad para los mensajeros Inca chaskis. Los pututu eran fabricados con el molúsculo Strombus Lobatus galeatus, el cual era importado desde el Oceáno Pacífico. Aunque menciones a los pututu son abundantes en crónicas coloniales sobre instrumentos musicales Inca, los pututu han sido utilizados desde mucho antes. De hecho, un gran número de pututus han sido encontrados en Chavín de Huántar.
Read more: Kolar, Miriam A. 2018. "Archaeoacoustics: Re-Sounding Material Culture." Acoustics Today; Stevenson, Robert. 1968. Music in Aztec and Inca Territory. University of California Press.
Image: 3,000-year-old pututu from Chavin. Photo by José Luis Cruzado via Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project website; Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nuevo Corónica y Buen Gobierno, 1615, Fol. 350 [352].
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