The "legenaria", well-known as pumpkin in Peru kills or, is the support for the elaboration of the polished art of kills chipped, in the zone of Huanta (Ayacucho), from where it come "you kill huantas", known by the vitality of its heavy but safe outlines, through which the craftsman represents scenes of the life farmer. Another variant is the miniaturization of the drawings, that often only can be appreciated by means of an increase moon. The technique consists of making fine incisions with a burin on kills creating drawings that generally represent scenes of a great dynamism "comic strip" way with subjects related to the life farmer. At the present time, the zone of the valley of the Mantaro and specifically the districts of Cochas Chico and Great Cochas are the places of greater production of you kill chipped.

"the stone of alabasto has been used like average raw material and of expression of the Andean man to carve small sculptures of great perfection that, of one or another form, represent the history of the visual arts of the Andean world. Although quarries exist of alabasto in diverse regions of Peru, is in Huamanga where school developed from very early escultórica that knew to take advantage of qualities material, for that reason the Stone name was coined of Huamanga.A to weigh of which Ayacucho was center of the Wari culture, have not been antecedent of this tradition, reason why it is considered that its use, like raw material for the elaboration of small sculptures, takes place just after Conquista, during the influence of the European talladores that they discovered his virtues and taught the art in Ayacucho."

"Product of the outcrop of the magma that arose from the Earth entrails does thousands of years, sillar was deposited in those gigantic cracks that as a great hurt cross the Peruvian territory South, and which they are the quarries. Sillar is the most abundant material of Arequipa, reason for which, almost from the foundation of the city it was used to work artistic covers to eminent constructions like the Cathedral, the Convent of Santa Catherine, etc. From the use almost magician by the preincas cultures to the present time, sillar, has had a gravitante presence in the Arequipa region. The primitive settlers of the region used to leave it petroglifos and pictogramas, at the moment, although in smaller scale is continued it using in the construction of houses and magnificent decorativas pieces. With exact property one of the preclear children of this city, doctor Jose Luis Bustamante and Rivero affirm: "Stony severe city. Solid union of houses where sillar it is symbol of collective psychology: rock and foams; hardness and ductility. Fire amalgam, on which the breath of the volcano founds and animates to the stones and the souls "