Peruvian Chujchu Dance Mask: "El Contratista"

This Peruvian festival mask is part of the Chujchu dance. It is made of papier mache. It has fair skin, light hair and blue eyes, clearly representing a European man. It is notable for the black wart on the side of its nose.

The Chujchu, one of Peru's traditional dances, is a comical dance in which the dancers represent laborers who, during the Colonial era, went to the tropical valleys and jungle regions to find work on the sugar plantations and returned with malaria and yellow fever. The dancers often fall to the ground in violent convulsions and are "treated" by doctors and nurses who carry various medical instruments such as giant syringes and irrigators. The dance is a parody of the contractors who hired people to forced labor in the Qosñipata forest. The dance is represented by contractors, police, and workers.

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Source:
http://www.myperu.org/traditional_dances_chujchu.html http://www.cusconet.com/Danzas-del-Cusco_en.aspx