Quino Callañaupa Weaving
Quino learns the village patterns by making narrow weavings called “jakimas.“ (Pronounce the “j” like an English “h”).
View ArticleGuadalupe, Nilda’s Mother
“In Chinchero we never have empty hands,” Nilda says. When her mother, Guadalupe, isn’t cooking, weaving, farming, traveling to trade or taking care of animals, her hands are spinning to make yarn for...
View ArticleThe Traditional Manta of Chinchero
A hand-woven manta, the most important family textile, is appreciated by every member of the family. Women, men and children use mantas for carrying everything from babies on their backs to fruits or...
View ArticleIn the Courtyard
The art of weaving is important to many modern Inca families as it was to their ancestors five hundred years ago. Every traditional family in Peru has contained at least one weaver. All her life,...
View ArticleHat Knitted By Yolanda
Yolanda, Nilda’s niece, knitted this traditional hat with ear flaps which is worn by men in Andean communities. Simplified versions of the hat are made as trade goods for export–sometimes they are worn...
View ArticleYolanda Zaida Callañaupa, Knitting
In the courtyard Yolanda knits a traditional Andean hat using a difficult Andean technique. In the early 1980s only one woman in town remembered the traditional knitting of the village. Nilda spent...
View ArticleAngel Callañaupa Alvarez
Angel (pronounce the “g” as an “h”) Callañaupa Alvarez grew up helping the family raise crops and care for animals. Now Angel is a well known Inca artist in Chinchero. He won a national award for his...
View ArticleLooking Up From the Courtyard
Inca people who live in mountain communities are always looking up or down. Members of the family may be cooking or weaving in the courtyard while others stand above their heads talking or spinning. A...
View ArticleChinchero Children With Flowers
On the Friday before Easter children in the family pick red nuchu flowers to use as Easter decorations for the church or for making flower murals. Most people in Chinchero attend the Catholic church...
View ArticleA Chinchero Family in the Courtyard
Archival photograph 1992 Nilda Callañaupa (second from left) and several members of her family stand in her parent’s courtyard in the house in Chinchero, Peru where Nilda was born and grew up....
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