Siklla

Siklla (Quechua for a type of plants with blue blossoms / fine-looking, elegant, beautiful, proud),[1][2] Wayra[1] (Quechua) or Doctorcitos[3] (Spanish for little doctors) is a satirical folk dance in Bolivia[4] and Peru.[1][5] The dance is a mockery of the Spanish lawyers of the colonial period.[6]

References
  1. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  2. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. Siqlla o Wayra: "Los Doctorcitos", Semana RSU PUCP, Historias de Cambio en DERECHO, Octubre 2011
  4. "Doctorcitos". Viceministerio de Cultura. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  5. "Festividad de la Virgen del Carmen de Huarocondo". mincetur. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  6. Javier A. Galván, Culture and Customs of Bolivia, 2011
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