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The pages below are a series of short photo essays on various subjects of ethnographic interest.
The city of Puno is an important folklore center. Click here to view a photo essay on mask making and dancing in Puno.
A
short photo essay on purchasing and consuming coca. Some
discussion is given regarding taste and quality.
Watia
is an Andean earth oven. Pictures of making a watia are provided
with a brief description.
Click
to view photos
of totora reed (Scripis
totora) objects and management.
Qui
Click
to view a photographs that were taken by Albino Pilco Quispe of a
roofing party at his fathers property in the Rio Ilave dranage.