Excerpt of four pages from Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143, Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 2 (The Andean Civilizations), edited by Julian H. Steward. It includes the title page, the opening page of John Murra's chapter 'The Historic Tribes of Ecuador', and two plates of photographs of Otovalo Indians. The plates show children's clothing, a market woman, a Spanish treadle loom used for tweeds, an indigenous loom, and Cholo girls weaving rugs and blankets on an outdoor loom at Riobamba, Ecuador.