PHOTOS: Nice Khonkho Welcome. 06/14/06

This is where I am on the Earth.






Just arrived at the new deposito for lunch.






Women on floor (mostly), men on benches, as per the custom. Said Snoopy doll on left.



Coca leaves offered to Dr. J. Two mallkus in background (they’re the ones with white whips worn across chests, for symbolic reasons only).



The band.






No less than six cases of beer offered to the project leaders, all to be drunk this evening.



Thanking the mallkus.









Dance party



A lightbulb is hooked up once the sun sets, and a stereo brought in soon after that.



Part II of the Wakta ceremony: The shaman gets to work, preparing the offerings to be burned outside the deposito.