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As a rite of passage from “early childhood” to “childood,” the child’s first hair cut ceremony observed among quechuan native speakers peasants in the amazonic region of Bolivia achieves the completion of social and motor core competencies which are determinant in the local perceptions of its development. The social construction of sex, the extension of the child’s and its parents’ environment (through the designation of an “hair godfather or godmother”) and its integration to cashflow at this occasion expresses a great evolution of the child’s social status and idendity – be it social, sexual, spiritual. More generally, hair care is one of the social “state’s markers” that ponctuates the individual life cycle from birth do death.