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Hello, my name is Cordelia Sánchez García,
I am from the native community of San

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Francisco, but I live here in Lima in the
community of Cantagallo, which is in Rímac.

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I want to tell you a little about myself, I
am from the Shipibo-Conibo culture; our

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custom is that, since we were little, our
mother always has to teach us everything

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from embroidery, painting and also the
bracelets and necklaces that we make, in

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order to meet our needs.

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Our mothers and our grandparents did those
things because they were not professionals,

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they just sold everything that is art to educate 
us and buy everything they need at home.

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That’s how we have learned to
make art, and also through the plants, and

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everything that is
the cosmovision.

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I want to explain about my art, I did an
artwork, both about what Western medicine

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is and what traditional
medicine is, what plants are.

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I did this thinking about those things
because we Shipibos not only use everything

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that is traditional medicine,
but also Western medicine.

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When I got sick with COVID, I had to
use both medicines, both traditional and

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western medicines, and that way I was
cured of COVID because we have to use both

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medicines, because if you use
only one it doesn't work, we have to

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use both so we can heal faster.

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One of the artworks I did is about a mother
embroidering masks, because in times of

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COVID, mothers couldn't go out
selling their necklaces, bracelets,

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so, what did the mothers do?

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They began to embroider masks in
order to sell and buy their medicine

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and food in order to survive.

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And that’s how, I did my artwork of what we
have been through in these very difficult

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times that we are going
through with the COVID disease.

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And I thank God for continuing to give
me life and thanks also to the friends who

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helped us a lot; and nothing
more to say, thank you.

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(Shipibo dialect)