Vintage cards of Peru

 

A Postcrosser in Germany offered to swap old cards from South American and sent a nice envelope (in exchange for modern lighthouse cards). He sent 2 showing Machu Pichu and 5 with Native people including images of women dancing and holding wool spinning tools. According to the text this man is wearing his Sunday clothes. Sadly none of them list tribal affiliation.

This card is different, less tourist oriented and identifies a Yagua woman from the Rio Ampayaco as preparing masato. This river is on the northeastern side of Peru and is associated with the Amazon, while the Yagua are a small tribe who have been impacted by Portuguese slavers, Catholic missionaries, and rubber producers. Masato is a fermented drink made from manioc and socially consumed.