'Machu' llama is being pursued by women dancers/herders accompanied by the harpist. The machu has bells attached to his feet. When the women surround him, they say that they have mated.
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 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
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