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the racial point of view as follows: White and 

 Mestizo, 1,892 (914 males, 978 females) ; undeclared, 

 18 (10 males, 8 females); Indians, 1,849 (921 

 males, 928 females); Yellow, 14 (12 males, 2 fe- 

 males) ; Negro, none.'" The racial classification as 

 between Whites, Mestizos, and Indians, must be 

 taken with reserve, as the census itself declares. 

 Two things are worth remarking, however. First, 

 there are no Negroes in Moche, a condition which 

 contrasts strongly with most coastal communities. 

 Second, 1,849 persons, or nearly half, apparently 

 consider themselves pure Indians and do not hesitate 

 to declare themselves as such. Of the "yellow race" 

 there are 7 Chinese men in the town, 2 with Chinese 

 wives, and 5 Japanese men. 



The census counted families, as well as individuals. 

 Although at the date of this writing these figures 

 have not yet been published, they have been kindly 

 placed at my disposal by Dr. Alberto Area Parro, 

 Director of the Census and of the National Bureau 

 of Statistics (a dependency of the Ministerio de 

 Hacienda y Comercio). Table 1 shows the number 

 of families and the number of individuals in the 

 various local subdivisions of the District in 1940. 



Table 1. — Families and individuals of Moche by census 

 subdivision , 1940 



As mentioned below, there are 111 jorastero 

 families in the community, 95 of them in the pueblo. 

 The "Hacienda Moche" of the census is an error, 

 being actually a part of the campiiia near the pueblo, 

 mostly worked by the Escuela de Agricultura. The 

 23 families, involving 95 persons belonging to the 

 Haciendita, can also be eliminated from considera- 

 tion in the pure Moche group, since they are prac- 

 tically all cholo workers from other parts. The 

 average family, or household, in Moche consists of 

 4.8 persons. We therefore assign an arbitrary 

 number of 500 to the jorastcros in the District in 

 addition to those on the hacienda property. If these 

 groups are subtracted from the total 1940 popula- 

 tion of the District, there are 589 true Mochero 



'"Extracto Estadlstico, 19-12, p. 21. 



families and 3,178 persons. It should be noted, 

 however, that the forasteros living in the community 

 participate to some extent, even as outsiders, and 

 have some influence, even though indirect, on Moche 

 life, while this is not true of the hacienda dwellers. 

 I inade a census of the forasteros, and the location 

 of their houses is shown on map 1 in order to show 

 the pattern of their residential relationships within 

 the Moche community. Since I have more confidence 

 in my count of forastero households than in my I 

 count of the absolute number of persons belonging ! 

 to them (owing to obscurities regarding illegitimate I 

 children, former wives or companions, etc.), only the '■ 

 distribution of households is listed in table 2. 



Table 2 — Forastero households in the Moche community | 



Locality of origin 



Peruvian: 



Trujillo 



Sierra of Dept. Libertad. 



San Pedro de Lloc 



Paijdn 



Ascope 



Piura 



Chiclayo 



Pacasmayo 



Lima 



Chocope 



Magdalena de Cao 



Chicama 



Viru 



Salaverry 



Cajaraarca 



Total 



Foreign : 



Chinese 



Japanese 



Spanish 



Italian 



Russian 



German 



Total 



Grand total 



Residence in Moche 



Pueblo Campifia 



38 

 15 

 7 

 1 

 3 

 3 



79 



16 

 95 



16 



Total 



42 

 23 

 7 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 



95 



16 

 111 



The identification of forastero households was 

 made with the consensus of opinion among my true 

 Mochero informants and indicates again the feeling 

 of vague solidarity among the "Mochica villages." 

 Although several individuals and households in 

 Moche have migrated here from other Mochica vil- 

 lages, they are not considered outsiders by the 

 Mocheros, with the exception of one definitely cholo 

 family which came from Magdalena de Cao. Except 

 in this one instance, the Mochica villages are not 

 included in table 2. It will be noticed that the great 

 majority of forasteros live in the pueblo and do not 

 engage in agriculture, which is the basis of Moche 

 life. The majority of forasteros who are settled in 

 the cainpina are Indian agriculturists from the 



