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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o trace of fortifications, but thefact that the clusters occupy points of observation mightindicate that the inhabitants did not always feel secure.The smaller houses, with one room only, recall the Chullpason the Bolivian mainland near Chililaya,^^ and the many-roomed buildings resemble the dwellings on the slopes ofIllimani near the perpetual snow-line.^^ The great number of andenes with which the dwellingsare connected, and the implements found at Kea-KolluChico and elsewhere show that the people were land-tillers;but the presence, in graves even, of the stones calledllivi, or ayllu, which were used after the manner ofthe Argentine bolas, indicates that they hunted, not onlywater-fowl, but probably also quadrupeds on the main-land. The llivi were also their main implements of war-fare. Their pottery is ruder and coarser, in material as wellas in decoration, than that of the so-called Inca type. Rorfoin ^0 efrerni)iqp4 Plate XXXYII Details of ruins of Pilco-Kayma Specimeus of niches
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ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 185 Plastic decoration, often crudely painted, prevails. Amongthe most striking vessels are certainly the black and redcups or goblets called kero, found abundantly in the stonecysts of Chullpa burials. Of these we know that they weredrinking cups, and used in ceremonials. It is even statedthat they served, under Inca sway, as accessories to humansacrifice, and were buried with the bodies of victims. Thesame was the case with the keros of wood, of which at leastthree were found in rents of rocks above Santa Maria (i).Whether these wooden goblets are to be classed as ChullpaI am not able to decide. I know, however, that they are metwith at Tiahuanaco and other places on the Bolivian mainland, both north and south of the Lake, and that their shapeis distinct from that of the usual drinking vessels fromCuzco.^^ If the black wooden kero from Santa Maria, sentby us to the Museum, is Chullpa, then, since the carving onit represents a man spearing a la

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