established centuries earlier. As the empire grew, the number of tropical regions
supplying feathers grew accordingly.
Further Reading
Cobo, Bernabé. Inca Religion and Customs. Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1990 [1653].
King, Heidi. Peruvian Featherworks: Art of the Precolumbian Era. New York: Metropolitan Museum of
Art, 2013.
Pizarro, Pedro. “Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru.” Translated and
annotated by Philip Ainsworth Means. 1921 [1571].
https://archive.org/stream/relationofdiscov00pizauoft/relationofdiscov00pizauoft_djvu.txt.
Reina, Ruben E., and Kenneth M. Kennsinger, eds. The Gift of Birds: Featherwork of Native South
American Peoples. Philadelphia: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania, 1991.
■ADRIANA VON HAGEN
FOODSTUFFS, DOMESTICATED
By the time groups living in and around the Cuzco valley became part of the
Inca empire, people had been living in the Andes, along the western coast of the
South American continent, and in the Amazon basin for at least 10,000 years,
and domesticating a diverse range of plants and animals (see Animals,
Domesticated).