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Beautiful Ch’ullos

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Art, Film, Music & Dance, Peru's Andes Mountains

These colorful knit hats with earflaps, known as ch’ullos (CHEW-yohs), are worn by men in traditional Andean villages. You don’t usually find many high-quality ch’ullos in Lima, but this past Monday I found a virtual forest of them on the third floor of Saga Falabella department store, in Jockey Plaza, where the hats are being [...]

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