• Foto Number: KDI-006

Wearing a woollen chullo under his typical cuzqueño hat and dressed in a wonderful poncho, this young Indian from the sacred valley holds the vara de mando, a silver-plated staff as a sign of his official dignity. He is the alcalde of an ayllu, an agrarian community handed down from the Inca era, in which the Quechuas still live today as they did in times gone by.

• Keywords:
  South America Peru Cuzco Ollantaytambo Piruw Alcalde Aboriginal Indio Inca-Culture baton traditional clothing