Infant is dressed in feminine clothing because both sexes are dressed as girls and hair is not cut until a ritual hair cutting ceremony, at which time boys receive male clothing and the haircut of a boy. The ritual hair cutting is the occasion when a child receives first inheritance, usually an animal. Child in the back is male.
Bibliography:
Isbell, Billie Jean. "De inmaduro a duro: lo simbólico femenino y los esquemas andinos de género." Chap. 8 of Más allá del silencio: las fronteras de género en los Andes, D. Y. Arnold, compiladora. La Paz: Biblioteca Andina, 1997: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2474 Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender
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