The "pollera," a bell skirt with layered petticoats, is the traditional dress of Indigenous women in Bolivia's highlands.
Before setting out for the wide, white mountain, Ana Lia González Maguiña took stock of her gear: A chunky sweater to guard against the chill. A harness and climbing rope to scale t ...
Maybe it was oxygen deprivation, huffing my way through a mountainous metropolis 12,000 feet above sea level, but on my first walk through La Paz, Bolivia, I’m not sure I saw a single man. The women, ...
Andean Indigenous women, or “cholitas,” proudly set out to work wearing a voluminous bell-shaped skirt with layered petticoats known as “pollera” (pronounced po-YEH-rah). They insist the pollera does ...
La Paz celebrated its 477th anniversary on Friday with a fashion festival honoring the style of Bolivia’s Indigenous Andean women, known as the chola paceña. (AP Video shot by Carlos Guerrero) ...
LA PAZ, Dec 23: In Bolivia, the traditional pollera skirt worn by Indigenous women, once imposed by Spanish colonizers, has become a symbol of pride, identity, and empowerment. Women across ...
ILLIMANI, Bolivia (Reuters) - For years, Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps and mountain-climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, a 19,974-foot (6,088-meter) ...
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