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Maya Textiles (Traje) of San Antonio Palopo, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Across Lake Atitlán from San Pedro la Laguna is the Kaqchikel town of San Antonio Palopo with a population of 2650. Before the road, which was completed in ...
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Backstrap Weaving Classes San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala
Guatemalan weaver teaches classes about the tradition of Mayan Indian weaving on a backstrap loom.
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Juan Fermin Gonzalez Morales
Juan Fermin Gonzalez, the oldest of three bothers who are artists, came up with the original idea of painting scenes of the Maya daily life from the point ...
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Life in a Mayan Indian Village in Guatemala
Like the million and a half Indians that make up half of Guatemala's present population, the residents of the Lake Atitlán basin speak dialects of the ...
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Life in a Mayan Indian Village in Guatemala
The women weave on backstrap looms, the men cultivate corn on mountain slopes and valley plots, and the people of different villages exchange goods in open ...
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Maximon, San Simon, Maya Folk Saint Santiago Atitlan Guatemala
The photo above which, when first shown to me, was described as a lynching in Guatemala, is actually a Easter Week re-enactment of the crucifixion where the ...
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Emilio Gonzalez Morales
Emilio Gonzalez Morales, the middle of three brothers who are artists, has been painting for naaerly twenty five years. He has always wanted to find his own ...
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Books on Guatemala Weaving and Maya Textiles of Guatemala
Jeffery Foxx's stunning beautiful photographs in this book include not only photographs of textiles but also of the Mayan world of Guatemala. ...
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Exhibitions
The San Francisco exhibition will also include four paintings of the present day Maya culture loaned by Arte Maya Tz'utuhil. These include the painting by ...
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Victor Vasquez Temo contemporay Latin American Mayan artist
The singular style of a young San Juan painter, Victor Vasquez Temo, is as captivating as that developed by his predecessors. Born in 1968, he remembers ...