4 August 2009. Almost sun, gray and blue. Smiling woman in pool, arc of even teeth in an ancient Chinese face. Continuities...
Coya, people of the far northwest, spread of Inca lands up and down the Andean chain, including the Argentine provinces of Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán. Face of Garcilaso de la Vega--El Inca Garcilaso--his narrow, arched Castilian nose, high forehead, pointed features--that single slice of white collar above the Spanish black... His mother an Inca princess...
Or Santiago del Estero, where a dignified older woman stands before a microphone with caja drum, her hair a gray blond, preparing to sing. Outdoors, sound of people's voices, unseen, children too. A call of encouragement from someone in the crowd: "Bravo, bravo Bajia..." Aware of all this, yet very much in her own realm. A time of song, a lifetime...
Una vidala...
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