The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . Uad been CS a .23 f-i (—1 3 1—1 > l>d o rS X q-l m &H S -< J ?^ P^ Ph tS a 9 ^ u. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 123 piani, he further asserted, were branches of the highest ofall,—the Chirihuanos,—which were not on the Island, buthad their headquarters at Sampaya, their leaders and high-est shamans being layka from the Mamani family. Besides these five ancient groups, there were the followingmore modern ones: The Kenacho, or Kena-kena; the Sicuri,the Inca-sicuri. The latter three clusters he represented asbeing less important. H
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . Uad been CS a .23 f-i (—1 3 1—1 > l>d o rS X q-l m &H S -< J ?^ P^ Ph tS a 9 ^ u. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 123 piani, he further asserted, were branches of the highest ofall,—the Chirihuanos,—which were not on the Island, buthad their headquarters at Sampaya, their leaders and high-est shamans being layka from the Mamani family. Besides these five ancient groups, there were the followingmore modern ones: The Kenacho, or Kena-kena; the Sicuri,the Inca-sicuri. The latter three clusters he represented asbeing less important. His statement as to the Chirihuanosbeing the oldest and the last three named the most recentand least important, was repeated to us, spontaneously, byDr. del Carpio, the owner of Koati, who has good oppor-tunity of securing information, since the headquarters ofthe Chirihuanos are in the near neighborhood of his ^8 We could not elicit from our Indian other information inregard to the Chirihuanos, Mimula and Pusipiani. As hehimself belonged to the last-named, hence to a branch of theChirihuanos, it is evident that he did
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