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    Beautiful Ch’ullos

    2008/08/06 /

    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 featured in a high-end artisanía exhibit, “Perú Hecho a Mano.” (Check out my story on the “Hecho a Mano” exhibit in this week’s Living in Peru.) You can find cheap mass-produced ch’ullos all over Cusco, but the most beautiful, and the most highly prized, are those that are woven by hand, in elaborate designs distinctive…

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After seven years in Peru, and a few more teaching in higher ed, I'm back to doing what I love: writing about human relationships, the planet and how we can ensure a better future for everyone, rich or poor. And I am still trying to unravel all of the remarkable things that happened to me when I was An American in Lima (2007-2014).

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