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...Indians. True to archaeological expectations, a strong Spanish influence was evident-the result, old records suggest, of seven Spanish turncoats who came to live in the Inca capital. In the palace were two rooms with a Spanish-style connecting doorway rather than the single courtyard entryway that typifies pure Incan architecture. Savoy also found several Spanish-type tiles and a Spanish horseshoe...
...camera built by Hughes Aircraft will probably be the first to explore the moon's surface, and cameras are also reaching far back into the past. A nine-lens aerial spy produced by Itek will soon begin searching out ancient Mayan and Incan ruins in the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala. It will also be used to study the behavior patterns of a timid tribe of Mexican Indians-believed to be direct descendants of the Mayans-by spying on them from...
...good of the Paganini Quartet to retrieve Ginestera, currently Argentina's leading composer, from the limbo to which serious Latin American composers are relegated. Ginestera's Quartet No. 1 (1950) attempts, according to Henri Temianka, first violinist, to evoke ancient Aztec and Incan civilizations. It combines the performance effects of Ravel and Debussy, the rhythmic drive and insistence of Bartok, and a peculiar harmonic clarity which could be interpreted as simple-mindedness. Both the first and second movements, in spite of constant, rapid, and vigorous rhythms, remain static on D. Open fifths, played tutti, reinforce the strength of the rhythms...
...Incan Indian appears to have been delivered because of a slovenly mix-up of orders at the Philadelphia foundry that made it. When the wrong Indian arrived in Cuzco, with three feathers in the hair and a bow in the hand, Cuzco happened to be preoccupied by graver matters: a typhoid epidemic that reduced the population from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never...
Peabody Museum has acquired a real, pre-Incan mummy which has rapidly disintegrated during the last week into piles of bones and blood-stained garments after being unwrapped by students in archaeology...