San Pedro Coyutla, Chalma, Veracruz is a Nahua speaking village with a tradition of traditional costume. The quechquemitl is worn here along with embroidered blouses and solid colored skirt with 3 pleats in the middle. One quechquemitl is 60 years old. Robert Freund 10/25/2007
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I arrived in San Pedro Coyutla after accommodating a police official at a road block. He asked if I would take the man with me and he would guide me to the road to Chiconmanel. It turned out to be a real find. The women in San Pedro continue to use Quechquemitls and other traditional clothing.

His wife showed up after a few minutes and although she spoke not Spanish, was willing to participate in the study. I photographed her in the cloths she was wearing and then she went in and changed. She appeared with a heritage quechquemitl that had been made by her mother in-law.

Afterwards we went to his sisters house and took some photos of her, she had recently suffered a stroke.

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This cloth is givien during a wedding.