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1898.] 



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EAR. 



Guana, guaihaiuo, 



Layana, ghehena^ 



Aravvack dialects, ;^«aw«z, 



TOOTH. 

 Guana, onhai, 



Layana, onhe^ 



Arawack dialects, ««-<7^, 7i-ai, 



The Quechua Stock. 



In the southwestern portion of the map is marked the area at one 

 time included under the government of the Incas. Their authority- 

 extended eastward to the Rio Salado, including the valley of Cata- 

 marca, and as far north as the upper tributaries of the Rio Vermejo, 

 where they were in contact with the Chiriguanos. 



This is a greater area for the Incasic power in this region than 

 has generally been assigned it ; but I am convinced that the evi- 

 dence is sufficient to justify it. 



I include among the Quechuas the tribe of Omaguas or Omagua- 

 cas who occupied an extended territory about Jujuy. Dr. Waitz, 

 for various reasons, not linguistic, believed that they were a branch 

 of the Tupi-Guarani stock, and related to the Chiriguanos.^ 



My grounds for dissenting from this and placing them with the 

 Quechuas are the following : 



1. The name Oniagua is undoubtedly the Quechua, iimayaccha, 

 from lima, head, and yachay, to know, understand, and means, 

 ''intelligent, superior people."^ It was applied by the Quechuas 

 to various tribes whose culture or ability they respected. 



2. Acarete du Biscay, who was among them in 1658, records that 

 they called their chiefs curaca, which is the Quechua term for the 

 head of a clan or village.^ 



3. Nicholas del Techo gives the personal name of one of their 

 principal chiefs as '' Piltipico." This is certainly the Quechua 



1 Anthropologic der Naturvblker, Bd, iii, pp. 432, 433. 



2 See von Tschudi, Beitrdge zur Kenntniss des Alien Peru, p. 139. Martins 

 thought it a hybrid of Quechua and Tupi. Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde 

 Amerikas, Bd. i, S. 436. 



3 Voyage to Buenos Aires, p. 58 (London, 17 16). At that time their principal 

 town had 200 houses. Their immediate neighbors to the west were the Chichas, 

 who were Quechuas. 



