The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
Bolivia, fall (our spring), 1968. Alejandro (l) and Porfirio (r) checking out some radishes from a little demonstration garden plot. The altitude, cold and dryness of the Altiplano are not conducive to many food crops. However, some cold-climate...