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Title: The Andes of southern Peru
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 American geographical society of New York. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) Physical geography Geology
Publisher: (New York) Pub. by H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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FlQ. 41—Regional diagram of the easternaspect of the Cordillera Vileapampa. See alsoFig. 17 of which this is an enlarged section. Jesuit fathers sowed theirmissions along the forest margin, and watched over them fortwo hundred years. From the mountain border one rubberproject after another has been launched into the vast swampylowlands threaded by great rivers. As an ethnic boundarythe eastern mountain border of Peru and Bolivia has no equalelsewhere in South America. From the earliest antiquity thetribes of the grass-covered mountains and the hordes of the for-ested plains have had strongly divergent customs, and speech, thatbred enduring hatred and led to frequent and bloody strife. 68
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Fig. 42—Rug weaver at Cotahuasi. Tlie industry is limited to a small group ofrelated families, living in the Cotahuasi Canyon near Cotahuasi. The rugs are madeof alpaca wool. Pure black, pure white, and various shades of mixed graj wool areemployed! The result is that the rugs have fast colors that always retain theiroriginal contrasts. They are made only to order at the homes of the purchasers. Themoney payment is small, bvit to it is added board and lodging, besides tobacco, liqueurs,and wine. Before drinking they dip their finger-tips in the wine and sprinkle theearth that it may be fruitful, the air that it may be warm, the rug that it mayturn out well, and finallj themselves, making the sign of the cross. Then they setto work.

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