Three Feather Ornaments from Peru by lna VanStan Three pre-Columbianfeather ornamentsfrom Peru. The largest measureseleveninchesfrom the point of the base to the tips of the feathers. These well preserved examplespresent one of the many ways in which bright-coloredbird feathers were used for human adornment.The feathers, which are orange in two of the ornaments (A and B) and blue in the third (), probablywere obtainedin the tropical rain forest east of the Andes,although all evidenceindicatesthat they were made into ornamentsand used by the inhabitants of the arid southerncoastalregion of Peru. 190