Ukumari (Inca warrior)

Ukumari (Quechua for bear[1] or spectacled bear,[2][3][4][5] hispanicized spelling Ucumari) was an Inca prince and general supporting the cause of Atahualpa in the Inca Civil War.

The name is used for a military leader in a children's historical novel by Daniel Peters.[6]

  1. ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  2. ^ Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ^ Cieza de León, Pedro de, and Clements R. Markham. The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, no. 68. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1883. pp. 232, 243
  4. ^ Molina, Christoval de, Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua, Francisco de Avila, Polo de Ondegardo, and Clements R. Markham. Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas. . [Whitefish, MT]: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. p.11
  5. ^ Cieza de León, Pedro de, Harriet De Onís, and Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen. The Incas. The Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 53. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959 . OCLC 501679
  6. ^ Peters, Daniel. The Incas: A Novel. New York: Random House, 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-58492-8