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A woman in Ecuadorian dress participating in the 2010 Carnaval del Pueblo. The Panama hat is of Ecuadorian origin, and is known there as "Sombrero de paja toquilla", or a Jipijapa. It is made principally in Montecristi, in the province of Manabí and in the province of Azuay.
Men's fine dress includes a woolen waistcoat, similar to a sleeveless juyuna as worn by women but referred to as a chaleco, and often richly decorated. The most distinctive part of men's clothing is the handwoven poncho. Nearly every Quechua man and boy has a poncho, generally red decorated with intricate designs.
Yumbo men also resorted to wage labor to obtain cash for the few purchases deemed necessary. By the mid-1970s, increasing numbers of Quichua speakers settled around some of the towns and missions of the Oriente. Indigenous Ecuadorians themselves had begun to make a distinction between Christian and jungle Indigenous people.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
Ecuadorian men (3 C) S. Men's sport in Ecuador (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 25 August 2016, at 18:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Ecuador portal This category is for articles about male models from the South American country of Ecuador . Classification : People : By occupation : Men by occupation / Models : Male models : By nationality : Ecuadorian
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Araucanos and Huasos in Chile, 19th century. A market scene Ruana in Bogotá, circa 1860. A Peruvian chalán dancing marinera on a Peruvian Paso horse.. A poncho (Spanish pronunciation:; Quechua: punchu; Mapudungun: pontro; "blanket", "woolen fabric") [1] [2] [3] is a kind of plainly formed, loose outer garment originating in the Americas, traditionally and still usually made of fabric, and ...