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Bringing the chamiso

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Title:
Bringing the chamiso
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Set:
Yapuy ritual series
Date:
1969
Country:
Peru
ID Number:
ISB_00204
File Name:
ISB_00204.jpg
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Yapuy (Ritual)
Rites & ceremonies
Festivals
Ceremonial objects
Plazas
Image View Description:
View of Bringing the chamiso
Description:
Chamiso, dried stalks, are being gathered. They will be burned in the plaza at the end of the ritual.
Bibliography:
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 9, section 3: 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:
Yapuy ritual series : 28
Format:
Image
Rights:
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