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Chukchu
Published September 16, 2019 at × in Canelos Quichua Ceramic Collection
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This mask is worn during the festival in Paucartambo celebrating the Virgin del Carmen in a
dance called “chukchu.” The masks used in this dance are of plaster or paper and may be
white or yellow. The dance has three different types of characters: a doctor, nurses, and
those suffering from tropical diseases. This particular mask is of a character called “el
chukchu,” representing laborers from highland Paucartambo communities that worked on
haciendas in jungle valleys where they contracted yellow fever and other tropical diseases.

Many consider this dance to reflect the historical reality of the Paucartambo poor that
worked in rubber extraction on the Q’usñipata haciendas during the early 21st century with
dreams of progress. Today, this dance has been expanded to also represent other diseases
such as cancer and AIDS.

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