The Inca and Huari (Wari)
- Title:
- The Inca and Huari (Wari)
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Huanca Sancos Communal Herranza ritual series
Gender roles series - Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Huanca Sancos (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00141
- File Name:
- ISB_00141.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Herranza (Ritual)
Gender
Rites & ceremonies - Image View Description:
- View of The Inca and Huari (Wari)
- Description:
- During the Huanca Sancos herranza, two animals were displayed. An animal having two sets of horns was designated as the Inca king of the herd - the black sheep with the message on his forehead. The white sheep is the Huari or Wari - an androgynous sheep with both male and female genitalia. It is the mother/father of the herd even though it is sterile.
- 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 6, section 4 (p. 151-163): 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
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender - Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Gender roles series : 26
Huanca Sancos Communal Herranza ritual series : 15 - 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.