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Presentation of the Chilean brief was made by Senor Don Beltran Mathieu (Chilean Ambassador to the U. S.) to U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, who represented President Coolidge. The case for Peru was presented by the Peruvian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington. Copies of both briefs (which consist of printed volumes of about 300 pages setting forth the arguments, and appendices containing copies of correspondence, other documents and maps) were handed over by the representatives of Chile and Peru for President Coolidge. Other copies were exchanged between the two litigants...
Thomas E. Duffy, American chemical engineer, prospecting in the desert of northern Chile, near the Peruvian border, found a great collection of Indian relics in tombs, including beautiful wood and stone carvings, statues of an unknown heavy wood, turquoise jewelry, hundreds of mummified bodies. Experts of the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, dated them provisionally...
Died. Marshal Andres Avelino Caceres, 87, twice President of Peru (1886, 1894), only Marshal in the Peruvian Army, at Lima...
...fish, and a conclusion of wild rice were the chief articles noted in their parchment menus. Oddly enough, we have one piece of concrete evidence--a petrified cake, apparently as fresh as on the day it was served. Cordially yours, J. BEATH-DUNCAN, With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition, Near Machu Picchu, Peru, January...
...England colonists could not produce better cordage than they found among the Indians with whom they first came in contact. In Peru, a great variety of cloth was made. Examples in various anthropological museums show that most of the types of weaving in use today were known to the Peruvian Indians in prehistoric times. Not long ago, there was litigation between certain twine manufactures over a "newly invented" method of winding twine into cylindrical packages. The controversy attracted the attention of an ethnologist, who showed that the method had been known and practiced for unknown generations in the Fiji Islands...