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The collas have more indeginious and are usually poorer and live in the “altiplano” and “valle” regions.
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The collas have more indeginious and are usually poorer and live in the “altiplano” and “valle” regions.
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A woman who had been redeemed at Montogou, and who had followed my caravan, found here her husband, who gave me a sheep and a hundred collas.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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We met there a caravan from Cancare; received from them a few collas.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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Some few years ago "benzine collas" was introduced, and the taxidermists were not long in finding out its valuable properties for feather cleaning.
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"Benzoline" (Benzol, or Benzine C6H6), then came into more general use, and was, of course, found to have all the properties of the so-called "benzine collas."
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We met there a caravan from Cancare; received from them a few collas.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Mungo Park 1788
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Montogou, and who had followed my caravan, found here her husband, who gave me a sheep and a hundred collas.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Mungo Park 1788
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The new beverage will be called Coca Colla, in reference to age old history: in Bolivia, Quechua, Aymara and other indigenous peoples descended from the Incas are known as collas.
CounterPunch 2010
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Other chants and phrases used that day, according to the vociferously anti-Morales La Razón newspaper, included: "shitty collas," (colla is a racial epithet used in Santa Cruz to refer to indigenous people from the western highlands), and, "Indians return to your lands."
unknown title 2009
52james commented on the word collas
". . . though at the moment collas swaying in the sun were not easy to conjure." So ends first page of D.R.MacDonald's Cape Breton Road novel. For sure not easy to conjure, these collas! Then again on page 177, "Fragrant collas by September, flower tops, that's where the money was." Is this Canadian druggie slang for sinsemilla?
June 23, 2014