The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . § w a, M c ^ -t^ 0 o. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 89 pictographs. Their import is wholly religious; they are theCatechism, and church-prayers, pictorially one herewith presented belonged to Don Abel Mendozof Puno, who sent it to the Geographical Society at Lima,and the copy is a photolithograjDhic publication in thatsocietys Bulletin.^^ Nobody has, as yet, been able tosecure a literal translation, but it seems certain that theyall relate to church ritual and are of post-Columbian ori-gin,^* For keeping their accounts wi
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . § w a, M c ^ -t^ 0 o. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 89 pictographs. Their import is wholly religious; they are theCatechism, and church-prayers, pictorially one herewith presented belonged to Don Abel Mendozof Puno, who sent it to the Geographical Society at Lima,and the copy is a photolithograjDhic publication in thatsocietys Bulletin.^^ Nobody has, as yet, been able tosecure a literal translation, but it seems certain that theyall relate to church ritual and are of post-Columbian ori-gin,^* For keeping their accounts with the hacienda, theIndians, on the Island as well as on the flanks of Illimaniand elsewhere in the Sierra, still use a simple quippu orknotted string, also sticks with notches. We have seen theformer in use at Llujo.^^ Councils are held on matters of interest to the wholecommunity, but where and when we could not affairs of the little commonwealths on the Island arediscussed, and Indians are by no means indifferent to theoutside world either. We notic
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