Excerpt from Volume 2 (The Andean Civilizations) of the Handbook of South American Indians, Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143, 1946. It contains the volume title page, the chapter heading for Bernard Mishkin's 'The Contemporary Quechua', and Plate 97 showing Quechua weaving. The plate shows native-style looms of the Peruvian Highlands and European modifications to the loom.