Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Funeral ritual
- Title:
- Funeral ritual
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Funeral ritual series
- Date:
- 1967
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00298
- File Name:
- ISB_00298.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Hair cutting
Pichqa
Funeral rites & ceremonies
Isbell, Billie Jean
- Image View Description:
- View of Funeral ritual
- Description:
- Billie Jean Isbell's hair is being cut at a funeral after the deceased has been buried. Hair of funeral participants is cut and burned as part of the pichqa ritual.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, introduction, chapter 5: 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:
- Funeral ritual series : 39
- 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.
