Chunchos

The frontier neighbors of the Chunchos are the sanguinary Campas or Antes who destroyed the missions of Jesus Maria in

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Deep in Peru, late in the sixteenth century, a Jesuit missionary wrote of his experiences during an expedition to the Chunchos.

The Soul's Entrepreneurs Grafton, Anthony 1994

The regimen was strict, the food everywhere abounding, was not for them, and the vicinity of the wild Chunchos was not reassuring.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

The examinador undertook the peons: he rapped them smartly and repeatedly about the head and shoulders, until they staggered to their feet and declared that they were a match for whole hordes of Indians: this courage, borrowed from the flask, gave strong assurance that at the first alarm from genuine Chunchos they would take to their heels.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

The third tribe was called Mañaris or Yanasimis, which means those of the black mouth: and the province of Rio, and the province of the Chunchos.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Chunchos, had been fortifying themselves steadily with brandy and chicha all the way from Marcapata.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

He describes fierce battles with the Chunchos, who were reduced to obedience.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Campas (Chunchos or Antis) represent the Arawak element, together with the Shipibos, Piros, Conibos and other tribes of the extensive

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

They made, previous to 1602, six distinct efforts to convert the Chunchos, from the side of Huanuco in Peru, and from northern Bolivia, but all these attempts were failures.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

To this day, according to reliable testimony, the Indians included under the generic name of Chunchos (properly Campas) claim to the preserve the corpse of santos Atahualpa, hidden from the whites, in the wooden, or willow, casket, as their most precious fetish.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913