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the tinkus is a warrior dance where the fight called in the Quechua language encounter is represented, it comes from the ritual of pre-Hispanic origin by Bolivian communities of northern Potosi and southern Oruro where in those times blood was shed during fights to request abundance and fertility to the earth the dance arose in the 80s by young Bolivians to provide a space for dance and music thus creating choreography that could transmit the custom of the encounter in this way rescuing the tinku as its own identity of Bolivian folklore the dancers danced with jumps, punches and kicks to a fictitious opponent most of the time crouched and normally with their fists closed imitating strength and fury before starting the fight one of its important elements is the montera that is made of leather and protects the heads of these and according to the stories were made by the indigenous people when they saw the Spaniards with metal helmets