Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks.
- Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![call the nation of the Huancas, after the name of the most powerful of the tribes which composed it, offers a very rare and characteristic formation, which cannot for a moment be confounded with either of the preceding, and distinguishes it also from the heterogeneous nations which we sometimes find mixed up with it. As we have intimated, the race of the Aymaraes was the root of the Incas or Peruvian emperors, and to them is to be attributed that spreading movement from south to north (attested by the history of these vast regions), the conse- quences of which were the conquest of the adjacent nations, and the modifications and changes, both physical and moral, which, by reason of their conquest, the races who peopled them underwent. The Huancas, as being the nearest, were subdued first; afterwards followed the Chinchas, and both the conquered people found themselves under the necessity of yielding to the law of the strongest, and of adopting the customs, religion and laws of their conquerors ; the natural result of this, in time, was a frequent mixture of the several races with each other, and a consequent mixed formation in the crania of the new generations. It is necessary, therefore, to have at our command suffi- cient materials by means of which to sift out the primitive relations of these several races ; and every synthesis, framed in the absence of such materials, will necessarily be errone- ous, hasty and inconsistent. And here two questions present themselves: I. What was the cranial configuration of the primitive or real Indians ? in the very interesting and valuable account of his travels in Peru, Ch. XI. An English translation of this book vi^as published by Putnam, in 1847.—[Translator.] 2*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24883463_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
