1. Mosoc-aparic: baby, "newly begun," "just born." 2. Saya-huarma: child, "standing boy," age 2-6. 3 Macta-puric: "child that can walk," age 6-8. 4. Itanta-requisic: "bread-receiver," boy about 8. 5. Pucllac-huarma: "playing boy," age 8-16. 6. Cuca-pallac: "Coca pickers," age 16-20. 7. Yma-huayna: "as a youth," light service, age 20-25. 8. Puric: "able-bodied," tribute and service, age 25-50. 9. Chaupi-rucca: elderly, light service, age 50-60. 10. Puñuc-rucca: dotage, no work, 60 upwards.(22)
Although for statistical purposes, exact registers of each of these groups were annually made by the recorders, it is evident that the purics or "able-bodied" men constituted the most important portion of the population. They naturally fell into two groups consisting of the nobility and commoners, but scattered evidence amply provides that they were strictly classified according to the special service or tribute they rendered to the government. The best produce of each province was brought to Cuzco.
The inhabitants of each region were specially trained to render certain services or to excel in particular industries--by this means each tribe gradually became identified with its special industry or aptitude. The necessity that the supply of their produce should be constant and regular, must have necessitated the permanent maintenance of a fixed number of workers at each branch of industry, a fact which would give rise to rigid laws controlling the liberty of the individual, forcing children to adopt their parents' avocations and forbidding intermarriages between persons of different provinces. As scattered mention is made of the following general classification of the male population, I venture to note them as follows, provisionally:
1. lords: shepherds (of lamas), 2. priests: hunters, 3. warriors: farmers, 4. civil governors: artificers.
The female population was doubtlessly subdivided in an analogous manner, for it is expressly recorded that all marriageable girls were kept in four different houses. Those of the first class, qualified as "the white virgins," were dedicated to the service of the Creator, the Sun and the Inca; the second were given in marriage to the nobility; the third class married the Curacas or civil governors, and the last were qualified as "black," and pertained to the lower classes.