Alcohol and cigars are shared in the pahuichi. They are a part of the pinjcho. Solidarity grows in the team, smiles and jokes prepare the group for the effort they are about to make. "Only inside the mine, a miner is communicative. He only converses with his miner colleague. Outside […] he is unsociable and sullen". (Inside of the Mine, René Poppe, 1975).
(Coop. Jallpa Socavón de Oruro)