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Mayordomos feted in Plaza
- Title:
- Mayordomos feted in Plaza
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Yapuy ritual series
- Date:
- 1969
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00181
- File Name:
- ISB_00181.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Yapuy (Ritual)
San Isidro (Festival)
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies
Plazas
- Image View Description:
- View of Mayordomos feted in Plaza
- Description:
- The festival of San Isidro ushers in the Yapuy, planting ritual in Cancha Cancha. Participants come from surrounding villages and engage in a ritual battle, throwing machka, toasted, ground corn powder in each other's faces. If someone is injured and blood is spilled, the harvest will be good.
- Bibliography:
- To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 9, section 3: 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:
- Yapuy ritual series : 07
- 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.
