Mayan Girl Selling in Antigua, Guatemala

December 23, 2007


Mayan Girl Selling in Antigua, Guatemala
Originally uploaded by Bernai Velarde.

This Maya girl is selling her weaving on the streets of Antigua Guatemala, in Central America. She carries her inventory on her head!

More Maya photos.

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Doña

May 19, 2007


Doña
Originally uploaded by studioiw+luisAmezquita.

A Mayan grandmother in Guatemala.

Another Mayan blog.

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Mayan Woman

April 20, 2007


Guatemala 2007 (424)
Originally uploaded by cmpcentral.

This Mayan woman shows her beautifully made huipil (blouse).

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Children of Santiago Atitlan

April 15, 2007


Niños Tz´utujiles
Originally uploaded by nmarritz.

The two Tz’utujil Mayan boys on either side of the pequeñito (who I assume is their brother) are wearing their traje, or traditional garb. Indigenous people wear their trajes all the time, not only in Semana Santa.

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Mayan Kids,Jaibalito, Guatemala

April 11, 2007


Jaibalito Atitlan Guatemala Mayan Kids
Originally uploaded by mmrhanna.

Jaibalito sits on the shore of Lake Atitlan. You can stay at the Vulcano Lodge next to the village.

Mayan girls

April 5, 2007


mayan girls
Originally uploaded by dosik.

On a eco-tour, we stopped off at a mayan village just outside of the mayan ruins of Coba, Mexico to learn about their culture and eat lunch. this is a picture of a couple of mayan girls hanging out with one girl beading. plus at the village, there was an awesome cenote, which is an underground cavern filled with freshwater, into which we were lowered to go swimming in the middle of the hot muggy day. the ecotour was working with the villagers for some neat projects to keep their lifestyles more sustainable - such as training some of the local village male youths in photgraphy so that they can sell pictures to the passing tourists instead of leaving their village to the cities for work. a lot of tours of native villages have a bad rep of being human zoo tours - like many of the tours in the hilltribe area of northern thailand - but this tour seemed to genuinely work with villagers and was sensitive so that we would not overly intrude or offend cultural norms.

mayan warrior

March 25, 2007


mayan warrior
Originally uploaded by Pete Foley.

taken at an archeological site close to the border with Belise. He works as a performance dancer at the port, which he was publicising He then drove off in his pick-up truck