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Kolla People
The Qulla (Quechuan languages, Quechuan for ''south'', Hispanicized and mixed spellings: ''Colla, Kolla'') are an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people of western Bolivia, northern Chile, and the western portions of Jujuy Province, Jujuy and Salta Province, Salta provinces in Argentina. The 2004 Complementary Indigenous Survey reported 53,019 Qulla households living in Argentina. They moved freely between the borders of Argentina and Bolivia."Argentina: Current information on abuses committed against the Kolla." ''Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.'' 1 June 1993 (retrieved 29 April 2011) While mostly living in arid highlands, their easternmost lands are part of the yungas, an altitude forests at the edge of the Amazon rainforest.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chakana
The chakana or Andean cross (also "stepped cross", "step motif", or "stepped motif") is a stepped cross motif used by the Inca and pre-incan Andean societies. The most commonly used variation of this symbol today is made up of an equal-armed cross indicating the cardinal points of the compass and a superimposed square. Chakana means 'bridge', and means 'to cross over' in Quechuan languages, Quechua. The Andean cross motif appears in pre-contact artifacts such as textiles and ceramics from such cultures as the Chavín culture, Chavín, Wari, Chancay culture, Chancay, and Tiwanaku Empire, Tiwanaku, but with no particular emphasis and no key or guide to a means of interpretation. The anthropologist Alan Kolata calls the Andean cross "one of the most ubiquitous, if least understood elements in Tiwanaku iconography". The Andean cross symbol has a long cultural tradition spanning 4,000 years up to the Inca Empire. Andean cross with central eye motif Ancient Tiwanaku Qirus sometimes bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |