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Maestro in front of high Andean peaks during the Qoyllur Rit’I festival

Heinz Plenge1998

USI Università della Svizzera italiana

USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano, Switzerland

A maestro stands in front of the high Andean peaks, wearing a mountain-shaped hat and sounding a pututo, a traditional conch shell horn, during the sacred pilgrimage of Qoyllur Rit’i, where mountains are visited and reveared as powerful ancestors.

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  • Title: Maestro in front of high Andean peaks during the Qoyllur Rit’I festival
  • Creator: Heinz Plenge
  • Date Created: 1998
  • Location Created: Andes of Cusco (Peru) - Near the Sacred Mountain Q’oyurriti
  • Physical Dimensions: 7539 x 5099
  • Type: Photograph
  • Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
  • External Link: UNESCO Intangible Heritage, Wikipedia - Quyllurit'i, Apus Peru
  • Art Genre: Documentary photography
  • Art Form: Photograph
USI Università della Svizzera italiana

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