It was on my fourth visit across the river that I found the latest figure, low down and dark, almost invisible, on the Pariacaca rock. By viewing the surface rock in the reflection of the sun, only possible close to the winter solstice when it hangs lower in the northern sky, I could make out the figure most clearly.
What all the figures by Mala share is the overall scale – the tube or pipe is one or two times their height, the globe at the end is a third the length of the tube. The Huancor figures have shorter tubes, and an upturned bowl, more like a pipe.
In July I visited Cajamarca, and in the centre of town is a statue of a clarin player, his lips blowing on a three metre long tube ending in a globe. In a former hacienda I found a photograph of a player and heard that there was one music shop in the town which made and sold the instrument.