Emily Stehr

Interesting (But Incomplete) History of Indigenous Peoples of the South American Andes Region Emily Stehr

Interesting (but Incomplete) History of Indigenous Peoples of the South American Andes Region Robert Gordon Latham; Man and His Migrations; J Van Voorst; 1851 Robert Gordon Latham writes: "The remaining South Americans who are neither Carib nor Guarani. - This division is artificial; being based upon a negative character; and it is geographical rather than ethnological. The first branch of it is that which D'Orbigny calls Antisian, and which he connects at once with the Peruvians Proper; both being members of that primary division to which he referred the Araucanians - the Araucanians being the third branch of the Ando-Peruvians; the two others being the - "a. Peruvian branch. - Colour deep olive-brown; form massive; trunk long in proportion to the limbs; forehead retreating; nose aquiline; mouth large; physiognomy sombre: - Aymara and Quichua Peruvians."