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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>n the Plate LXXVII Objects of stoue from Island of Koati, resembling tobacco-pipes,and excavated at Inak-Uyu jiiitin^ •onque:
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ABORIGINAL MYTHS AND TRADITIONS 297 In 1542 the Licentiate Cristoval Vaca de Castro, then defacto Governor of Peru, instituted the first official inquiryinto ancient lore of the Cuzco Indians, the proceedings ofwhich are given in a document entitled: Discurso sohre laDescendencia y Gobierno de los Ingas, and published by thelate Don Marcos Jimenez de la Espada. That investigation,carried on with a great deal of care and much sound dis-crimination, contains no allusion to lore about Titicaca,but places the origin of the Inca at Pacaritambo (Tambo)near Cuzco.^ Aside from the value this document has forspecific Inca history, it is important for mentioning thename of an author who is of great importance in connectionwith Peruvian Indian lore—Juan de Betanzos. He was oneof the two Spaniards who controlled the examination ofthe Indian witnesses, being in 1542 already one of thepersons who knew very well the general language of thiskingdom, and who wrote down what was declared by meansof t

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