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Vicuna shearing ceremony celebrated in Peru's Andes
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LESLIE JOSEPHS and EDISON LOPEZ, Associated Press Writers
AP Worldstream
06-27-2006
Dateline: PAMPA GALERAS, Peru
Hundreds of villagers march side by side along the wind-blasted Andean plain, closing in on their prey: herds of nervous, fast-moving vicunas _ the smaller, wilder cousins of llamas and alpacas.
Chanting and shaking a rope with colorful streamers, they encircle the shaggy-coated animals and push them into a corral in a ritual that was known to the ancient Inca, but nearly abandoned in the 20th century. Dancers gyrate, making tinny sounds by clapping unscrewed scissors.
For decades, ...
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