This dance represents the old muleteers with mule teams carrying wineskins and containers during the republican period. Paucartambo was not a big producer of sugarcane, so these characters used to sell wine and home-made spirits (aguardiente) brought from the valley of Majes in Arequipa.
They all wear straw hats, a thin cloth covers part of the head that wears expressive masks, leather bags, shirt, tie, artistically decorated cinchones, riding pants and boots with spurs, travel scarves and bottle of wine or beer in the hand.
