Identifier: islandsoftiticac00band (find matches)
Title: The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914
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Publisher: New York, Hispanic Society of America
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sited Titi-caca but occasionally and saw only certain portions of it.Else how could they be silent in regard to such ruins as thePilco-kayma and Pucara 1 I beg to return once more to the suggestion that theChincana may have been an abode for women living incompulsory retirement. Of the six beautiful ponchosacquired by the Museum with the Garces collection, fivewere found buried in the vicinity of Chucaripu-pata andTitikala. The tissues are of extraordinary beauty andsolidity, patterns as well as colors are exceptionally fine.Concurrent testimony of the Spanish chroniclers is to theeffect that such work was mostly performed by women liv-ing in seclusion and that it was part of their duties.* ilVJ aTA>iTrrjfi8 lo viiaiaiv ni bautyi isvlia xii R«(tii^9lo SB 1)981/ ,-i9vIia -So eeiiJ^ft oIuM .0 ,^ :<1 Plate LVIlObjects in silver found in vicinity of Sacred Rock 1, 2. Topos or Tumis of silver. 3, 4, 5. Silver pins. 6, 7. Female figures.8, 9. Male figures of silver, used as offerings
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ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 233 Hence it is not improbable that the five ponchos in questionwere woven on the Island of Titicaca unless one or theother was brought thither from Cuzco. It is also likelythat their age is not much greater than four centuries.*^^The loom actually in use among the Aymara is primitiveand consists of four stakes planted in the ground, and atthis the woman, kneeling and squatting, weaves with im-plements like those found in ChuUpa ruins.^^ In the caseof the large ancient ponchos, it is distinctly stated thateach required a larger frame placed upright, and greatlength of time. The colors were given to the wool before itwas spun, and the thread twirled by hand, men sometimesassisting the women in this workJ^ I still have to allude to several large stones, all of ande-site, one of which is to-day at the hacienda of Challa, in thecourtyard of its buildings, and the others are found at thegarden of the same hacienda. The former measures fivefeet in len

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