Abstract

Salomena waeachi (wife of Mauricio Chavez of Umira) weaving a basket (wari; see Items 27050, 92018-92023, 92026). In Slide 42, she is removing small stones, grass, and similar foreign matter from a basket of beans to her left and dropping the sorted beans into a new basket. A chiniki (see Item 92080) is wrapped around the child on her back, brought over her shoulders, and the ends twisted and held under her left arm. A commercially manufactured pi