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XVIII. I nte?·ncttional Gong1·ess oj

Ame1·iccw~ists.

ate many victuals, and besides had the vice of eating coca, keeping it in her mouth

when sleeping."

I n a series of fifteen pictures are shown "captains" of the Inca time, that

(from the artistic point of view) seem to be sketches of Huaman Poma's fancy.

The first of the series is the type of the

do1·milon pe1·esoso ca2Jitan,

the

ponoyatmctyoc

quilla cinchicona,"

the sleepy and idle chieftain." The sun shines in at the winclow,

the Inca Yupanqui still is sleeping:

sin

conr;_uistcf.n~wrio.

Tbere are also conquerors

in this series. One of them, Auqui Tnpac Inca, a son of Oapac Yupanqui Inca,

having vanquishecl the Quichua- Aymara tribes, presents his father witb the heacl

of an enemy. Apo Oamac Inca, callecl also Otorongo Achachi, son of Inca Roca,

has turned himself into a jaguar assaulting the Ohunchus of the Ancles. Otorongo

(utuntncu)

is the name of the jaguar, and Achachi, "grandfather," "ancestor," is

said to bave been a pet-name given to tbe jaguar by the tribes of tbe Ancles.

Another "captain," Inca Urcon, a son of Tupac Inca, is clirecting the transportation

of a huge stone, to be dragged by Indians from Cuzco to Hnannco :

chayct

pomaittiha,

he críes, but the stone has grown tired ; it refuses to be moved furthe r

and weeps blood.

This series conclndes with the four highest dignitaries of the

realm, the author's grandfatber, the Oapac apo Huamanchaua, governor of the

Ohinchaysuyu, and seconcl in rank to the Inca, as their head. To mark his

prominent position, Huaman Poma does not refrain from adorning his shoulders

with a cape of ermine. Very curious is the attire of the Oapac apo Ninarua,

representative of the Andine provinces; it is entirely composed of feathers. As a

supplement are given the portraits of the wives of t he four dignitaries.

The author passes on to the clescription of the customs of the Inca time. He

commences with a long series of ordinances ascribed to Tupac Inca Yupanqui.

Here we meet with one of the cases where Huaman Poma seems to have mingled

his

OW)l

explanations with the things he had heard.

·He mentions as settled by

edict of Tupac Inca that no testimony from poor roen should be acceptecl, for they

could be bribed:

porque no jtwse cohechado ;

and he adds in Quichua:

pagamscct

1'!t?Ut llullamcmta 1·inutc 1'ttnét,

that is, "paid roen, lying men."

Evidently a current

term of the time of our author, bnt by no means fit for an ordinance of one of the

Incas,

pagarasca

is a participle formed by adding a Qtúchua ending to the Spanish

verb

pagar,

aclopted by the Indians of Pern very soon after the Oonquest, with the

use of money unknown to them before.

In two series of pictures are shown types

for each of the divisions that were made by t he officers of the Incas at the census

of the male ancl female population. Then follow remarks on the occupations and

feas ts of the months of the Inca year, accompanied by a series of pictures showing

the principal occnpation or

fiestas

of each month. Among other pictures there is

one of the tillage, the

chacrct yapuy,

of the month of Augnst. Men are breaking

gronncl with the primitive implement already in .use in the time of the Huari

Hniracocha men.

omen kneeling before them crumble with their hands t he

clods of the soillifted up by the men. A hmnpbacked girl, unfit for taking part in

the labour, renders service by fetching a cnp of chicha.

The roen are singiug their