Showing posts with label Ecuador. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ecuador. Show all posts

Friday, March 12, 2010

Ecuador´s Best Panama Hats

As I am sure you know, the "Panama" hat is from Ecuador, and Cuenca is the capital of hat-making. Today we were shown around Alberto Pulla´s workshop by the man himself, who has been featured in articles across the world.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Shrunken Heads

 


Forget the US thing for "shrinks", in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Shuar avenged murders by reducing the killer´s head to a tsantsa, the size of a tennis ball.
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