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Preparing Hair Dye
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
Dye used is Tetelcingo, extracted from leaves of a shrub. Shows the leaves which have been soaking in water being ground on a metate.
Aztec Woman
Community
Photograph Collection, Nahua
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Summary
Aztec from Cuetzelan Region in full costume.
Woman Dyeing Hair
Community
Nahua, Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
A Nahua woman of Tetelcingo, Morelos, dyeing her hair green.
Wool Weaver & Children II
Community
Otomi, Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
An Otomi weaver and a girl spinning. Santa Ana Hueytlalpan, Hidalgo.
A Weaver of Women's Sashes
Community
Otomi, Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
A weaver of women's sashes, Santa Ana Hueytlalpan, Hidalgo. (Otomi)
Girl of Tuxtla, Gutierrez
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Summary
Girl of Tuxtla, Gutierrez in dance costume.
Wool Weaver & Children I
Community
Otomi, Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
An Otomi weaver and a girl spinning. Santa Ana Hueytlalpan, Hidalgo.
Woman and Children, III
Community
Nahua, Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Summary
Nahua women and children in costume.
Mother's Urdidor
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Zapotec Woman
Community
Photograph Collection, Zapotec
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Summary
Zapotec woman weaving in characteristic standing position. Yalalag, Oaxaca.
Totonac Skirt
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
An old-style embroidered Totonac skirt.
Nahua Woman from Huilacapixtla
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Summary
A woman, in a handwoven white quechquemitl, who came into the large town of Huauchinango from Huilacapixtla, Puebla.