Women wearing tall straw or other types of hats are mestisos and indicate a tribal relationship.
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| Music, Hats and Dancing...Peruvian Style | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rural Peru continues to be a tribal society in many ways and you will notice women wearing different styles of hats. The hats indicate which tribe they belong to. Most are mestisos, mixed blood with the Spanish. Women wearing the circular red hats are native Incan descendants whose family lines never intermarried with the Spanish. Getting their pictures sometime required a tip of some sort, but some were none the wiser. Women wearing tall straw or other types of hats are mestisos and indicate a tribal relationship. |
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| Many of the locals pose for pictures for a small tip. I think I remember that happening quite a bit in Egypt as well. But they do sort of regulate it, meaning you won't see mestisos wearing the Inca hats just to get a few nuevo sols out of it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The lady above is demonstrating the art of hand weaving alpaca wool...very soft stuff! And as you can see from the other pictures, there is much poverty in this country and women work hard to contribute to the family. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dancing at the Penas was cool. An all night affair (starting at like 10:30pm) where you see almost every kind of cultural dance there is from every part of the country. Very colorful outfits and a lot of fun to watch. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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