Guatemalan Woman Showing Huipils
This is Lidia Lopez showing the many huipils she has and telling what village they came from.
This is Lidia Lopez showing the many huipils she has and telling what village they came from.
The Guatemalan women in this photo are wearing folded up ‘tzutes’ on their heads to shade their faces.
This little girl from Guatemala is wearing traditional clothing and carrying worry dolls.
This is Lidia Lopez, a native Mayan woman from Guatemala, showing some of the textiles she has woven on a backstrap loom.
Guatemalan women use raw cotton for weaving textiles. They prepare the cotton before spinning and dying it with natural dyes.
Lidia Lopez and her family demonstrate cooking a traditional Guatemalan meal called Pepian (also spelled Pipian.)
Guatemalan families often incorporate corn into their meals in the form of tortillas.