Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Funeral
- Title:
- Funeral
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Funeral ritual series
- Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Chuschi (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00348
- File Name:
- ISB_00348.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Hair cutting
Pichqa
Funeral rites & ceremonies
- Image View Description:
- View of Funeral
- Description:
- Woman is cutting participants' hair after burial. The hair is then burned as part of the pichqa.
- 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 Introduction
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 : 34
- 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.
