Amigos de Taquile

The relationship of Tara Miller and Sam Brown with Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca. Includes travel blog: to follow chronologically, start at the bottom of the page and work your way up. -----also check out our pottery at paoniapottery@blogspot.com----

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Easter 2025

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Singing in the Churches A few weeks before Easter, groups of singers gather to make up new songs and practice for the nights and a day of ...

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Life and Death

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On Taquile Island, the custom when someone dies is to refrain from productive work until the body is buried. So that means no weaving knit...

Monday, June 6, 2022

Coca Chuspa Fabric Bags

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Chuspa, Quechua word for Coca Purse, the fabric bag traditionally carried by Taquile men for the sacred and medicinal coca leaf. Coca is...

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Excursion: Cutimbo

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Family excursion to hot springs and more ruins Carnaval ended with a blowout on Sunday night. Fredy's boat had come with cargo and was...

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Solar Installations 2017

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Professional Solar Installer Comes to Lake Titicaca Empowered Energy Systems, LCC , Brad Burrit and Danielle Carre, came to Peru for a v...

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Tara Miller and Sam Brown: Potters, Solar Cooks, Godparents on Taquile. Call 1-970-527-6570 or send to paoniapottery [-at] gmail.com for more information.

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