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Toribio and his wife, like others among the half of Peru's 4,000,000 Indians who have accepted the idea of foot covering, ordinarily wear cheap sandals made of llama skin or slabs of old tires. For reasons of poverty or prejudice, the Latin American Indian's sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled...
...average native on the altiplano were to cook his meals over a cow-dung fire, the cow dung would have to be imported from the Argentine pampas. Cows are pretty scarce in Bolivia as a whole, and virtually nonexistent on the altiplano. The natives there use llama dung for fuel...
A.C.N. DE VOOGD Vancouver, B.C. ¶TIME'S apologies to the hardy and resourceful llama...
...broadcast, and television's Dagmar, surrounded by a crowd of 7,000, had her automobile license plates ripped off as souvenirs. Inside the air-conditioned stores, shoppers snatched at bargains (chicken at 39? a lb.), boggled at such curiosities as ostrich eggs at $45 apiece, llama steaks...
...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...