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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A GLIMPSE INTO SOUTHERN BOLIVIA 413 isolated little depressions to which the name "valle^-s" can hardly be given, and thin pillars of smoke ascended from them straight into the cloudless sky. After long and patient looking a small. stone hut set among rocks would invari- ably be discovered, and sometimes we could even distinguish minute, moving forms which we knew were Indians. There, tucked away between the tower- ing peaks they love so well, they were living a life of peace and plenty, apjiav- ently unmolested, and caring little aljout the existence of the outer world. It was as if one tore a page from the history of bygone centuries, or found himself suddenly transferred into the midst of a contented, pastoral community such as must have existed throughout the vast empire before its despoliation by the gold-crazed invaders. These Indians seldom come down into the lower country; their partiality for the high puna is well known—some of the ancient dwellings having been discovered at an elevation of more than seventeen thousand feet—and they are doubtless happier in their almost in- accessible fastnesses than if they lived nearer to their Bolivian neighbors. In appearance and dress these Indi- ans differ greatly from the other mem- bers of the tribe living in the more populous sections of the country. In- stead of the more or less conventional attire adopted by the latter, they still adhere to a form of dress at least a part of which may date back to the days of Atahualpa. The women wear a quantity of clothing—short, full skirts of dark blue, and shawls of varied colors. The men are garbed in loose, white knee breeches, a gray or blue shirt, and belts which are neatly em- broidered in gay colors and are very wide at the back so that they form a kind of sash; also they wear the inevital)le
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Quichua man from the Upper Pilcomayo, wear- ing a typical native costume: helmet-like hat of skin, blouse woven in a peculiar Indian pattern, wide loose trousers of coarse cloth, and sandals. His hair is braided in a long queue poncho, a large square of heavy cloth with a hole in the center through which the head is thrust. Strange as it may seem, the small children always wear very long clothing, and the little girls waddling along in their full, almost

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