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Ahuehuepan is a small mountain community above the town of Xalitla, there is also a road connecting to San Augustin Oapan. Here in this town the elderly women continue to wear traditional clothing.
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Ahuehuepan is a small mountain community above the town of Xalitla, there is also a road connecting to San Augustin Oapan. Here in this town the elderly women continue to wear traditional clothing. The dirt road ( 2009) climbs up from Xalitla and the old federal highway to Ahuehuepan. The town has many paved streets and is electrified.
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Here is a view from the road into town of its setting.
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The plaza is clean and orderly. During my visit there was a meeting of the town men, planning to go to the festival in San Juan Tetelcingo. While interested in the project , they were occupied with the preparation and gathering of the band. However it was obvious visually that over the past few years much construction had occurred.
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There are recently paved roads and new town square, after 70 years of one political party there was a change in parties and also a change in the amount of money that reached the towns.
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The church was clean and recently painted.
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Another view of the church.
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I always try and take a picture of the name of the town, this plaque was on the wall of the church.
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View of the old and new construction in town. Almost everyone in the town spoke Nahuatl and the older generation only spoke it.
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The road into town.
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I always try and get a shot from the back , here we can see the skirts with lace and the edges of the ever present apron.
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The home
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To get up to meet her we had a steep rock wall to climb, when I realized she was nearly blind I wondered how she could make the trip to but food. A niece took her food and helped her out.
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The over blouse is made from store bought material and the lace is applied . The long sleeves are probably to protect from the sun as this region is generally very hot.
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While this participant did not speak Spanish, her niece , who we encountered in the market, help us convince her to participate in the study.
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Under the over blouse is a light cotton "camisa" or blouse. It also is adorned with lace on the sleeves. pleating and a strip of embroidery. I saw both hand embroidered and strips of material leading me to believe that originally the blouse was similar to those worn in Oapan and Analco.
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Inside her home
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The alter
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The road out of town heading to Ahuelican down the road about 5 miles. A Nahuatl speaking village
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Panoramic view from the hill above Ahuehuepan a Nahua village. The region is covered in scrubs since almost all the native forests have been destroyed.
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Panoramic view from the hill above Ahuehuepan. The region is covered in scrubs since almost all the native forests have been destroyed.
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A close up of the blouse worn by the Nahuatl speaker in Ahuehuepan, Guerrero. Mexico
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4 shots showing the views and terrain of the region.
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This is a map of the region visited, I actually visit more villages however there was no costume , but some great mescal. I will include those villages in the update at some future time.
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