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Show Traveling Around America j i . . V ' ... .jru i f - u , 1 , . , ik . ..... xJjUAj j - Photo Grace Lint INDIANS AND MONK'S ROBES IT TOOK all sorts of Indians to make up the New World before the white man took it over! These are the Chunchos living in aboriginal aborigi-nal style on the eastern side of the Andes in Peru's montana which, contrary con-trary to its sound, means lowlands. These jungle Indians differ definitely definite-ly from the Andean Indios. The latter, lat-ter, dominated by the Incas, then by the Spaniards, are docile and a bit servile in mien, and usually small of stature. There's nothing subdued about their dress, however, for they wear gay colors the beautifully patterned costumes and tinsel-trimmed tinsel-trimmed hats In vogue in Inca times. The jungle Indians, on the other hand, have had but limited contact with the outside world. They are very independent in manner, usually usual-ly are tall and sturdy, yet dress in much more somber costumes than the Indios. They wear Just a loose brown robe like a monk's. That's because be-cause the first clothes they ever saw were those worn by the missionaries. mission-aries. (The Conqulstadores left the jungles to the religious orders while they stayed on the Pacific side of the mountains where the gold-take was easy.) To this "monk's" robe the Indians add as color accessories feather-trimmed head gear, the red berry juice with which they paint" their faces, and the strings of bright berries they wear 'round their necks. One reason these tribes in the montana have remained so primitive is that their villages although some of them are less than 400 miles from Lima are shut oft by mountains, moun-tains, jungles and forests. Until recently re-cently the most practical way to reach them from Lima was by ship sailing up the Pacific, through the Panama Canal across the north coast and thence up the Amazon and Ucayall. Within the past two yean new motor roads and airlines have been opened into the montana. Travelers Trav-elers visiting Lima on the weekly cruises from New York now may visit this fascinatingly primitive region re-gion much more quickly and easily than ever before. Edha Mak Stabs |