Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected and donated by Leslie Hoggarth, Protestant missionary at Sicuani.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Original description for A-C, possibly from collector's notes: 'A: Bundle used as fertility charm or offering to spirits (?Pachamama or hill spirit), wrapped in plain brown warp-faced cloth with thin red and yellow warp stripes. It contains, maize, chuno, coca, wool, a shell, money, fat, beans (pallares), 'taco' (red earth for marking animals), white stone (powdered as medicinal), a ring, a brass charm, smooth stones (which 'sweat', very important), guayruro seeds (from tropical forest, red ones 'solteros' and red with black patch 'viridos'), brass llama-headed pin (bent into animal form), lumps of metal (hanaj-pacha-bala = above-earth-bullet =heavenly bullet) representing thunder spirit.
These and an animal foetus (not here) are present in every bundle of this sort. These are kept in the huts and brought out at ceremonies, especially Carnival and San Juan. August also is an important month, when the earth comes to life. They are widespread, but this example is from Winchiri, 50km east of Sicuani.

B: Bundle for same purposes as 'A' and from same place. Wrapped in coarsely-woven grey cloth, with a brown weft-stripe at each end. Contains coca leaves, dried flowers (claveles=pinks), bottle of wine with fat (vino con grasa), two bells, a brass medal of Our Lady, a bead, lead thunderbolt (hanaj-pocha-bala) and a brass pin (tupo).

C: Medicine bundle used by shaman (Curandero or paco). Wrapped in European handkerchief. Contains magnetic ore
(attracts money!), ?a mouse's nest, shells, coca, red and black beans of the guayruro plant (all red are solteros and those with black patch viados). From near Sicuani.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
"Collector's information, original notes on the bundles, was found in this box. To be transferred to the paper archives" R.Hand 13/6/2000
Event Date 13/6/2000
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6089 | Freezing
Event Date 11/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Bundle used as a fertility charm or offering to spirits wrapped in a square cream cloth, possibly wool, with a brown stripe down each edge. It contains coca leaves, dried flowers (claveles), glass bottle of wine with fat (vino con grasa), two bells, a brass medal of Our Lady, a bead, four lead thunderbolts (hanaj-pocha-bala) and a brass pin (tupo).
Event Date 2/9/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller