The discursive genus of santamarian funerary urns, produced in the context of Calchaquí society, was valid between the centuries xi and xvn throughout a large section of the Valliserrana sub-area of today’s Northwest Argentina. Its main thematic aspect is given by a central figure called “long finches”. This text analyses the characteristics of the representation of this figure in a large sample consisting of whole museum objects. The Santamariana discursive genre funerary urns produced by the Calchaquí society were used from the 11th to 17th century in a vast part of present-day Northwest Argentina’s Valliserrana Sub-area. The genus’s main subject is a central figure referred to as ‘of long eyebrows’. The present text details the characteristics of this representation in a broad sample of complete museum artifacts. It is proposed that cephalic adornments, TROPHY heads and other key references in Calchaquí symbolism stand as indicators of the importance of ideas and concepts going to a sacrificial-type cosmovision.