Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Funeral
- Title:
- Funeral
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Funeral ritual series
- Date:
- 1967
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00338
- File Name:
- ISB_00338.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Funeral rites & ceremonies
Parades & processions
Ceremonial objects
- Image View Description:
- View of Funeral
- Description:
- A ritual stop with the deceased in front of the cemetery door. Participants must rent the robes, burial litter, brazier and cross from the priest.
- Bibliography:
- 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 : 25
- 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.
