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Concepcién, and all the Jauja Valley towns. 
Within a single block one sees shepherds from 
Choclococha, miners from Huarén and Morococha, 
hacendados from Ayacucho and Jauja, soldiers, 
priests, and arrieros. Indeed, the people in the 
market represent a fairly complete cross section 
of the population of Highland Peru. The buying 
and selling is conducted in Spanish and in many 
dialects of Quechua. In almost infinite variety, 
the costumes range from homespuns to Harris 
tweeds, from ponchos and sandals to slacks and 
sunglasses. 
For block after block down the length of the 
Calle Real the goods and merchandise are ex- 
hibited in bewildermg array, spread out on the 
street, on tables and temporary shelves, under 
tents and umbrellas. There are decorated gourds 
and cheap glassware, old locks and silver filigree, 
coca bags and overalls, amulets, dyes, bridles, 
blankets, vegetables, fruits, grains, and second- 
hand books. On the side streets many people 
sell prepared food and chicha as well as fodder 
for the pack animals. Vendors of patent medi- 
cines wander among the crowd, shouting the 
efficacy of their remedies, while fortune tellers 
divine the future with the assistance of trained 
monkeys and parrots. There are sellers of sweets 
and soft drinks; lottery tickets are for sale, and 
the tables of the “shell game” attract throngs of 
interested spectators. 
Ina general way the market is departmentalized, 
a given section selling the same merchandise 
Sunday after Sunday. Where one enters the 
Calle Real, some 50 women sell pottery of all 
types: bowls, ollas, huge chicha jars, braziers, and 
pitchers. Although several women sell finer glazed 
wares from Andahuailas and Aco, most are utility 
vessels from Mito and Orcotuna. In the next 
section about 10 women sell gourds with painted, 
engraved, or burned decoration which have been 
brought from Pariahuanca near the Montafia 
and from Piura and Lambayeque on the North 
Coast. Also from Pariahuanca and from other 
towns bordering on the jungle are the wooden 
spoons, ladles, bowls, and other wooden articles. 
There follow in the neighborhood of 150 puestos, 
stalls or locations, where shoes manufactured in 
Chupaca and Jauja are offered for sale by Mestizos 
from those towns and from Huancayo. The next 
block is crowded with approximately 100 stalls 
selling felt hats from Cajas. 
Opposite the Plaza de la Constitucién a variety 
of articles, chiefly for the tourist trade, are offered 
for sale. These include woven shawls, belts, and 
filigree jewelry from San Gerénimo, elaborately 
embroidered sleeves, fancy baskets, and gourds. 
Several stalls sell knitted sweaters, scarves, and 
caps which have been imported from as far away 
as Juliaca and Puno in southern Peru while 
others have leather jackets, bone and horn trin- 
kets, and carved wooden toys of local manu- 
facture. 
In the central section of the market there are 
at least 250 stalls which sell cheap cotton blouses, 
skirts, dresses, aprons, shirts, overalls, trousers, 
and the like which have been manufactured 
locally or in Sicaya from goods imported from 
Lima. While many of these stalls are operated 
by Mestizas from Huancayo and Sicaya, others 
belong to merchants who have shops along the 
Calle Real and who have been forced to move 
their wares bodily out into the street in order to 
meet the competition offered by the street ven- 
dors. Farther down are some 20 stalls which 
sell bolts of inexpensive cotton textiles as well as 
glassware, crockery, mirrors, colored reproduc- 
tions of religious pictures, knives, kitchen utensils, 
and other hardware from Lima. 
Beyond the Parque Huamanmarca is the sec- 
tion where native-woven textiles—ponchos, blan- 
kets, shawls, carrying-cloths, and belts—are sold 
by men from Ayacucho and women from San 
Gerénimo, Hualhuas, and other nearby towns. 
Scattered in between are a number of individuals, 
usually Mestizas, who sell charms and amulets, 
herb remedies, starfish, sea shells, and beans and 
nuts from the Montana, which are thought to 
have medical or magical value. On the other 
side of the street 15 stalls offer wooden chairs 
with rush seats, stools, folding cots, wooden 
trunks, tables, and the like manufactured in 
Jauja, Huancayo, or in San Gerénimo. 
In the vicinity of the building which houses 
the daily market the merchandise includes a 
miscellaneous array of unspun, dyed wool, men’s 
felt hats, stone mortars, and sheep pelts, in all 
some 50 stalls. Beyond the market building are 
approximately 150 or 200 stalls where fruit and 
vegetables are sold—avocados, pineapples, and 
oranges from the jungle, green vegetables and 
bananas from the Coast, and potatoes and quinoa 
from the punas. 
At the far end of the Calle Real, on the way out 
of the city, about 20 women sell tanned hides, 
