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Since 70% of Bolivians are Indians, and since those who revolted last week are of the ancient and once imperial Inca strain, their rioting, burning of haciendas, and murdering of numerous white landlords could be considered the acts of a downtrodden people, righteously aroused at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: BOLIVIA: Incas Up! | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city was named Cerro Colorado. Not many miles away is the ancient Cabeza Larga, a city preceding the Nascan culture, which preceded the establishment of the Inca empire (circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...newspapermen about Spanish politics (TIME, Dec. 29). He talked of the paintings he was about to exhibit in the U. S., and particularly he talked of a dark young man whom he has painted three times?Juan Belmonte. Juan is a bullfighter. He is now in Peru, taking the Inca-fortune that is his due for being a bullfighter?the best bullfighter in all Spain. Unnoticed in Manhattan, where he stopped on his way a few weeks ago, Juan's advent in Peru nearly caused a national holiday. When he comes back to Manhattan to spend some of his Inca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toreador | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...perfectly preserved mummy of an Inca chief was unearthed, with art objects in a large earthern jar, in the province of Salta, Argentine. The embalment methods may prove superior to those of the Egyptians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With the Diggers | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...Inca tomb near Cajamarca, Peru, Francisco Loaysa, of Lima, found an elaborate " quipu," or knotted and decorated cord 16 yards long, used by the Incas as a calculating device for their decimal arithmetic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another Week's Digging | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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