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Machu dancer

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Title:
Machu dancer
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Set:
Navidad ritual series
Date:
1975
Location:
Quispillaccta (Peru)
Quispillacta (Peru)
Quispillaqta (Peru)
ID Number:
ISB_00138
File Name:
ISB_00138.jpg
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Navidad (Ritual)
Rites & ceremonies
Ceremonial dancers
Image View Description:
View of Machu dancer
Description:
The navidad celebration is a ritual to ensure fertility of animals. One of the main actors is a male dancer dressed as a machu (male) llama.
Bibliography:
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 9, section 2: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Rituals: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/rituals
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Series:
Navidad ritual series : 09
Format:
Image
Rights:
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