PRIMEVAL TOMB, ACORA.
[After a sketch in Squier’s Primeval Monuments of Peru, Salem, 1870. He considers it an example of some of the oldest of human monuments, and is inclined to believe these chulpas, or burial monuments, to have been built by the ancestors of the Peruvians of the conquest in their earliest development.—Ed.]
RUINS AT QUELLENATA.
[Reduced from a sketch in Squier’s Primeval Monuments of Peru, p. 7. They are situated in Bolivia, northeast of Lake Titicaca, and the cut shows a hill-fortress (pucura) and the round, flaring-top burial towers (chulpas). Cf. cut in Wiener’s Pérou et Bolivie, p. 538.—Ed.]
The empire was marked out into four great divisions, corresponding with the four cardinal points of a compass placed at Cuzco. To the north was Chinchaysuyu, to the east Anti-suyu, to the west Cunti-suyu, and to the south Colla-suyu.
RUINS AT ESCOMA, BOLIVIA.
[After a cut in Squier’s Primeval Monuments of Peru, p. 9,—a square two-storied burial tower (chulpa) with hill-fortress (pucura) in the distance, situated east of Lake Titicaca. Cf. Squier’s Peru, p. 373.—Ed.]