Habas beans:  Broad beans.

Huaca:  A sacred or holy place or thing, sometimes a boulder.  Often applied to a piece of prehistoric pottery.

Manana:  To-morrow, or by and by.  The “manana habit” is Spanish-American procrastination.

Mestizo:  A half-breed of Spanish and Indian ancestry.

Milpa:  A word used in Central America for a small farm or clearing.  The milpa system of agriculture involves clearing the forest by fire, destroys valuable humus and forces the farmer to seek new fields frequently.

Montana:  Jungle, forest.  The term usually applied by Peruvians to the heavily forested slopes of the Eastern Andean valleys and the Amazon Basin.

Oca:  Hardy, edible root, related to sheep sorrel.

Quebrada:  A gorge or ravine.

Quipu:  Knotted, parti-colored strings used by the ancient Peruvians to keep records.  A mnemonic device.

Roof-peg:  A roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into a gable wall and allowed to project 12 or 15 inches on the outside.  Used in connection with “eye-bonders,” the roof-pegs served as points to which the roof could be tied down.

Sol:  Peruvian silver dollar, worth about two shillings or a little less than half a gold dollar.

Sorocho:  Mountain-sickness.

Stone-peg:  A roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the walls of a house and projecting 10 or 12 inches on the inside so as to permit of its being used as a clothes-peg.  Stone-pegs are often found alternating with niches and placed on a level with the lintels of the niches.

Temblor:  A slight earthquake.

Temporales:  Small fields of grain which cannot be irrigated and so depend on the weather for their moisture.

Teniente gobernador:  Administrative officer of a small village or hamlet.

Terremoto:  A severe earthquake.

Tesoro:  Treasure.

Tutu:  A hardy variety of white potato not edible in a fresh state, used for making chuno, after drying, freezing, and pressing out the bitter juices.

Ulluca:  An edible root.

Viejo:  Old.

Bibliography of the Peruvian Expeditions of Yale University and the National Geographic Society

Thomas Barbour: 

Reptiles Collected by Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1912.  Proceedings of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, LXV, 505-507, September, 1913. 1 pl.

(With G. K. Noble:)

Amphibians and Reptiles from Southern Peru Collected by Peruvian Expedition of 1914-1915.  Proceedings of U.S.  National Museum, LVIII, 609-620, 1921.

Hiram Bingham: 

The Ruins of Choqquequirau.  American Anthropologist, XII, 505-525,
October, 1910.  Illus., 4 pl., map.

Across South America.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911, xvi, 405 pp., plates, maps, plans, 8 deg..