The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . A 1 _ •^-^ ^~ fe] T3 - s <n. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 125 These embody ethnologic features of great antiquity andconsiderable interest. I can only urge the necessity ofstudying the aborigines of this part of South America ac-cording to the methods so successfully employed within thelast twenty-five years among northern Indians. The great variety of shamans scattered over Boliviaamong the Indians of all tribes and stocks, as well as amongall Indians of Peru, renders their classification difficult. Onthe Island, there was a shaman
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . A 1 _ •^-^ ^~ fe] T3 - s <n. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 125 These embody ethnologic features of great antiquity andconsiderable interest. I can only urge the necessity ofstudying the aborigines of this part of South America ac-cording to the methods so successfully employed within thelast twenty-five years among northern Indians. The great variety of shamans scattered over Boliviaamong the Indians of all tribes and stocks, as well as amongall Indians of Peru, renders their classification difficult. Onthe Island, there was a shaman over whom a cloud seemedto hover. He was mentioned as being chama-kani, andregarded with mistrust because he had dealings with theQ^l >n5i ^g tried to ascertain whether the medicine-men,the healers and curers proper, or doctors, so-called, weredistinct from the diviners or prophets. It struck us thatour medicine chest and the household remedies of my wifewere so frequently put in requisition, and that even thelayka Manuel Mamani preferred to ask for our medicamentsrather t
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