- Masked dancer at Qoyllur Rit'i festival, Peru, 2006
El Fotografo spied this guy at the 2006 pilgrimage. He embodies the fertility cult that underpins the festival's Catholic traditions, which have been sycretized with older, Andean rituals.
I find this image rather terrifying, for some reason.
We looked again for the Sheep's Head Dancer this past May but didn't see hide nor hair of him, as they say.
---Barbara R. Drake