Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Machu dancer
- 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:
- 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.
