Matías González Chavajay

Two families are meeting with the cacique, or headman, to negotiate the marriage of a young couple. Each side has brought gifts—bottles of liquor from the young man's family, and a basket of rolls from the woman's family.

Matías González Chavajay La Pedida / The Request
Oil on canvas - 18" x 22" 1999
Two families are meeting with the cacique, or headman, to negotiate the marriage of a young couple. Each side has brought gifts—bottles of liquor from the young man's family, and a basket of rolls from the woman's family.