Word: chucuito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since January 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tschopik, Jr. of the Museum, have been at work in the Aymara Indian village of Chucuito, in the Peruvian Andes, an ancient community which many authorities believe represents remnants of the original Andean culture, and which maintained its own culture in the fact of both Inca and Spanish political domination...
...Chucuito study, conducted in a South American sector little known to anthropologists, is the opening investigation in a long-considered plan of the Peabody Museum to enter the field of South American ethnology and archeology...
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