﻿Vol. 
  2] 
  INCA 
  CULTURE 
  — 
  ROWE 
  269 
  

  

  ch. 
  15; 
  Falc6n, 
  1918, 
  pp. 
  149-151; 
  Poma, 
  1936, 
  p. 
  191; 
  Senores, 
  

   1904, 
  p. 
  203; 
  Castro, 
  1936, 
  pp. 
  239, 
  245; 
  Cieza, 
  1880, 
  bk. 
  2, 
  ch. 
  18.) 
  

  

  The 
  Inca 
  Government 
  controlled 
  its 
  women 
  subjects 
  as 
  arbitrarily 
  

   as 
  its 
  men. 
  An 
  Imperial 
  official 
  called 
  *apopanaca 
  visited 
  each 
  village 
  

   and 
  classified 
  all 
  girls 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  10. 
  Girls 
  selected 
  for 
  out- 
  

   standing 
  beauty 
  and 
  physical 
  perfection 
  (aklya-kona, 
  "chosen 
  

   women") 
  were 
  educated 
  by 
  the 
  Government. 
  Those 
  rejected 
  (hawa- 
  

   sipas-kona, 
  "left-out 
  girls") 
  remained 
  in 
  the 
  villages 
  to 
  marry 
  the 
  sons 
  

   of 
  the 
  taxpayers. 
  Village 
  betrothals 
  were 
  publicly 
  solemnized 
  by 
  the 
  

   curaca 
  ; 
  the 
  marriageable 
  boys 
  and 
  girls 
  were 
  assembled 
  in 
  the 
  square 
  

   in 
  two 
  lines, 
  and 
  the 
  curaca 
  gave 
  a 
  girl 
  to 
  each 
  boy 
  in 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  

   Emperor. 
  (See 
  Life 
  Cycle.) 
  

  

  The 
  Chosen 
  Women 
  were 
  organized 
  in 
  convents 
  in 
  the 
  provincial 
  

   capitals, 
  and 
  newly 
  chosen 
  girls 
  spent 
  about 
  4 
  years 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  con- 
  

   vents 
  learning 
  spinning 
  and 
  weaving, 
  cooking, 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  

   chicha, 
  and 
  other 
  household 
  occupations. 
  Then 
  they 
  were 
  reclass- 
  

   ified; 
  some 
  as 
  mama-kona 
  ("mothers"), 
  and 
  some 
  to 
  be 
  given 
  as 
  prin- 
  

   cipal 
  or 
  secondary 
  wives 
  to 
  deserving 
  nobles 
  or 
  warriors. 
  Some 
  

   mama-kona 
  were 
  dedicated 
  to 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  Sun 
  and 
  the 
  shrines 
  

   in 
  perpetual 
  chastity 
  (whence 
  their 
  popular 
  title 
  in 
  modern 
  literature, 
  

   "Virgins 
  of 
  the 
  Sun"); 
  these 
  prepared 
  special 
  foods 
  and 
  chicha 
  for 
  

   sacrifice 
  and 
  use 
  in 
  festivals, 
  and 
  tended 
  the 
  shrines. 
  Others 
  were 
  

   concubines 
  of 
  the 
  Emperor, 
  and 
  prepared 
  his 
  food 
  and 
  made 
  his 
  

   clothing. 
  

  

  When 
  the 
  Chosen 
  Women 
  were 
  first 
  designated 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  about 
  

   10, 
  some 
  were 
  set 
  aside 
  to 
  be 
  sacrificed 
  on 
  special 
  occasions; 
  they 
  were 
  

   considered 
  especially 
  fortunate, 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  assured 
  of 
  a 
  life 
  of 
  ease 
  

   and 
  happiness 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  world. 
  (Cobo, 
  1890-95, 
  bk. 
  12, 
  ch. 
  34; 
  

   Senores, 
  1904, 
  pp. 
  203, 
  206; 
  Anonymous 
  Discurso, 
  1906, 
  p. 
  153; 
  RGI, 
  

   1881-97, 
  1: 
  100, 
  681, 
  189; 
  Garcilaso, 
  1723, 
  pt. 
  1, 
  bk.4, 
  chs. 
  1-8; 
  Valera, 
  

   1879, 
  pp. 
  178-189.) 
  

  

  Colonization. 
  — 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  famous 
  of 
  Inca 
  administrative 
  

   policies 
  was 
  the 
  resettlement 
  or 
  colonization 
  program. 
  The 
  prin- 
  

   ciple 
  behind 
  it 
  was 
  that 
  by 
  reshuffling 
  the 
  population 
  older 
  political 
  

   units 
  would 
  be 
  broken 
  and 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  more 
  difficult 
  for 
  the 
  inhab- 
  

   itants 
  of 
  a 
  province 
  to 
  plot 
  revolt. 
  When 
  a 
  new 
  province 
  was 
  con- 
  

   quered, 
  settlers 
  were 
  brought 
  into 
  it 
  from 
  some 
  province 
  which 
  had 
  

   been 
  under 
  Inca 
  government 
  long 
  enough 
  to 
  know 
  the 
  system, 
  and 
  

   their 
  place 
  was 
  filled 
  with 
  the 
  most 
  recalcitrant 
  elements 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  

   province. 
  These 
  settlers 
  were 
  called 
  mitimaes 
  (mitma-kona, 
  usually 
  

   Hispanicized 
  as 
  mitimaes; 
  singular, 
  mitima. 
  See 
  Acosta, 
  1940, 
  bk. 
  6, 
  

   ch. 
  12). 
  The 
  new 
  colonists 
  were 
  under 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  the 
  officials 
  of 
  

   the 
  province 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  moved, 
  although 
  they 
  kept 
  their 
  own 
  

   customs 
  and 
  distinctive 
  headdress 
  and 
  were 
  never 
  really 
  united 
  with 
  

   the 
  old 
  population. 
  Loyal 
  settlers 
  sent 
  to 
  colonize 
  a 
  newly 
  conquered 
  

  

  