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AYMARA (anc. Cella)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 73 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AYMARA (anc. See also:Cella) , a tribe of See also:South See also:American See also:Indians, formerly inhabiting the See also:country around See also:Lake Titicaca and the neighbouring valleys of the. See also:Andes. They See also:form now the See also:chief ethnical See also:element in See also:Bolivia, but are of very mixed See also:blood. In See also:early days the See also:home of the Aymaras by Lake Titicaca was a See also:holy See also:land " for the Incas themselves, whose See also:national legends attributed the origin of all See also:Quichua (Inca) See also:civilization to that region. The Aymaras, indeed, seem to have possessed a very considerable culture before their See also:conquest by the Incas in the 13th and 14th centuries, See also:evidence of which remains in the megalithic ruins of Tiahuanaco. When the Spaniards arrived the Aymaras had been See also:long under the Inca domination, and were in a decadent See also:state. They, however, retained certain privileges, such as the use of their own See also:language; and their treatment by their conquerors generally suggested that the latter believed: themselves of Aymara blood. Physically, the pure Aymaras See also:short and. thick-set, with a See also:great See also:chest development, and with the same reddish complexion, broad See also:face, See also:black eyes and rounded forehead which distinguish the Quichuas. Like the latter, too, the Aymaras are sullen and apathetic in disposition. They number now, including See also:half-breeds, about half a million in Bolivia. Some few are also found in See also:southern See also:Peru.

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