Chico is watching the crowd

Author: * Chico Llama - 1 Post on this thread out of 12 Posts sitewide.
Date: Jun 24, 2003 - 11:15

For the occasion Chico has done his best to straighten his brightly red and yellow coloured uncu with llama pattern by placing it on a board and to go over it with a metal object that he had heated in the oven.

He had also brought his llacolla, but has left it with some friends that live near the Coricancha.

"It's a-too warm to wear a cloak on a bright sunny day like a-this is", he had told his friend who was concerned that he might catch a cold.

*Chico watches the procession go by from one of the streetcorners*

"I say, what a crowd! " *Chico's eyes don't know where they should be looking, there's so many beautifully dressed people passing by*

"There's Mama Coya, wearing an outfit of purple dyed vicuña wool with a pattern of zoomorphic figures. "

"That must have been made out of a million Murexes¹", he hears someone, obviously a canticamayo², in the crowd say.

^1. A canticamayo was a person who 's task it was to prepare and dye material.

^2. Murex Brandaris and Murex Truncullus (molluscs that were used to get a purple colour dye)