Enormous wealth was sent to Cuzco as tribute from all parts of the empire, for the service of the court and of the temples. The special insignia of the sovereign were the _llautu_, or crimson fringe round the forehead, the wing feathers (black and white) of the alcamari, an Andean vulture, on the head, forming together the _suntu paucar_ or sacred head-dress; the _huaman champi_, or mace, and the _ccapac-yauri_, or sceptre. His dress consisted of shirts of cotton, tunics of dyed cotton in patterns, with borders of small gold and silver plates or feathers, and mantles of fine vicuña wool woven and dyed. The Incas, as represented in the pictures at Cuzco,[1199] painted soon after the conquest, wore golden breastplates suspended round their necks, with the image of the sun stamped upon them;[1200] and the _Ccoya_, or queen, wore a large golden _topu_, or pin, with figures engraved on the head, which secured her _lliclla_, or mantle. All the utensils of the palace were of gold; and so exclusively was that precious metal used in the service of the court and the temple that a garden outside the Ccuri-cancha was planted with models of leaves, fruit, and stalks made of pure gold.[1201] [Illustration: LAKE TITICACA. [After a cut in Ruge’s _Gesch. des Zeital. der Entdeckungen_. Squier explored the lake with Raimond in 1864-65, and bears testimony to the general accuracy of the survey by J. B. Pentland, British consul in Bolivia (1827-28 and 1837), published by the British admiralty; but Squier points out some defects of his survey in his _Remarques sur la Géog. du Pérou_, p. 14, and in _Journal Amer. Geog. Soc._, iii. There is another view in Wiener’s _Pérou et Bolivie_, p. 441. Cf. Markham’s _Cieza de Leon_, 370; Marcoy’s Voyage; Baldwin’s _Ancient America_, 228; and Philippson’s _Gesch. des neu. Zeit._, i. 240. Squier in his _Peru_ (pp. 308-370) gives various views, plans of the ruins, and a map of the lake.—ED.]]