A father holds his son on horseback. The child is one of the sponsors of the Corpus Christi celebration when the savage 'sallqaruna' descend from the puna and ritually attack the community.
Bibliography:
Isbell, Billie Jean. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135 Chapter 9 To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 2, section 8 (p. 57-59) chapter 9, section 2 (p. 201) chapter 10, section 2 (p. 229): 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
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