As we continue our global survey of new Nativity sets and scenes in the Sacred Art Pilgrim creche collection, we stop off this week at the workshop of Peruvian Folk Artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe, who handcrafts manger scenes in retablos, wooden boxes with doors that open to reveal story-telling arrangements of figurines. Jimenez Quispe and his family belong to the Quechua people, descendants of the Incas, and have created a bustling Nativity retablo, where farm animals (and a llama) jostle to get closer to the Baby Jesus, and country folk wearing traditional Quechua bombin bowler hats bring gifts of a sheep, a shirt, a rooster, and a watermelon. Claudio's wife makes the boxes, he molds the figures out of potato paste and gypsum, and other relatives paint them with brushes made from the hairs of family cats! This new Quechua Nativity retablo can be viewed in the image gallery of the Nativity Sets and Scenes page of the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)