The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ven theartificial deformation of the head, so frequently alluded toin these pages, was practised as late as the seventeenthcentury. A number of antiquities from Titicaca may be oflater date than the time of the conquest, and more recentthan the Inca remains. Nevertheless, even when posterior 240 THE ISLANDS OF TITICACA AND KOATI to the sixteenth century, they are of an ancient type, andfair representatives of the art and industry of the people intheir primitive condition, prior, not only to the advent ofthe Spaniards, but also to that of the Inc
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ven theartificial deformation of the head, so frequently alluded toin these pages, was practised as late as the seventeenthcentury. A number of antiquities from Titicaca may be oflater date than the time of the conquest, and more recentthan the Inca remains. Nevertheless, even when posterior 240 THE ISLANDS OF TITICACA AND KOATI to the sixteenth century, they are of an ancient type, andfair representatives of the art and industry of the people intheir primitive condition, prior, not only to the advent ofthe Spaniards, but also to that of the Incas and theiroccupation of Titicaca Island. I now turn to the Island of Koati, Titicacas smallerneighbor, and to its ruins. Whereas there is good evidencethat Titicaca enjoyed a certain reputation as a shrineprevious to the time when the Incas established themselveson its soil, Koati rose into prominence only through thaestablishments which the Incas founded there. ,i OJ K^ c« CC w tH Sh ?< o (^ -3. NOTES THE ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLANDOF TITICACA PAET IV * The word Chullpa signifies thebag, or sack, made of ichhu grassof the mountain-regions, in which thedead were placed. See Bertonio:Vocdbulario, II, p. 92: Chullpa: —Entierro o serron donde metian suadifuntos. I, p. 430: Sepultura,—o seron como isanga donde ponianel difunto: ChuUpa, vel the bag, or sack, the namewas gradually transferred, popularly,to the buildings in which they werefound and finally to the people whoonce occupied them. The Indian wiz-ard on Titicaca, to whose statements Ireferred so freely in Part III, told usthe Chullpa dressed in textures ofllama wool. Pedro Pizarro (Relacion,p. 281) says the inhabitants of theCollao visten de ropa de lanabasta. ^Eelatione per Sva Maesta, 1534,(Ramusio, II, Ramusio III: 1565, ): le sue terre sono di mediocregrandezza, & le case picciole, le mure dipietra & terra insieme, coperte di pag-lia. Belacion de la Provincia de losPacajes, p. 62: La form
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