Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Gentiles and yarqa
- Title:
- Gentiles and yarqa
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Chuschi (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00093
- File Name:
- ISB_00093.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Children's cosmology
Drawings
Children's art
- Image View Description:
- View of Gentiles and yarqa
- Description:
- 7-10 year old boy's representation of Wamanis, bones of the Gentiles, non Christian ancestors, which are inside of the mountain. A yarqa, or irrigation canal, zig-zags down mountain. Irrigation water is said to be the semen of the Wamani.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.
