chullo hat

Wearing warm chullo hats, shepherds rejoice at the birth of baby Jesus, and Mary and Joseph also wear traditional Andean apparel. By Erika Ulloa, this enchanting nativity scene is set in the Peruvian highlands. She crafts the wooden box to house this retablo or diorama and paints it in vivid colors. The figures are carefully modeled from clay and painted by hand.