I'hoto by llirain liingliar. 



CARRYING ADOBE BLOCKS! SOUTHERN PERU 



The modern method of building a house in Cuzco and in the uplands of Peru is to 

 begiii by making a sufficient number of adobe bricks (sundried mud mixed with straw or 

 rubbish). They are made just about as large as can be conveniently carried by one work- 

 man. In this case they were intended for the local magistrate's new house near Choquetira. 



Photo by U T. XcUuii 

 A TVI'ICAL PERUVIAN INDIAN WOMAN AT OUIQUI.TANA. SOUTHERN PERU 



Indian women in Peru are never idle. Even when walking along the roads they are 

 almtist always engaged in spinning with old-fashioned whirl-bobs and spindles such as their 

 ancestors used over a thousand years ago. 



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