A Group of Children's Weavings

 

In Chinchero children learn their village patterns by making narrow weavings they call "jakimas." (In English "j" sounds like "h".) They practice the patterns they later use to make wider more complicated weavings.

Here a group of "jakimas" are laid side by side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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