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Making Pottery
The last stop in Teotihuacan Valley was a women’s pottery-making cooperative run by these two women: The women live in a compound with various apartments that they have had built. Their tools for making pottery are very basic: a corn cob, some rubber, a coconut shell etc. They don’t have a wheel – just a…
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Weaving Cooperative
Traditionally women stayed at home and cooked for the family but a number of women started cooperatives in the Teotihuacan Valley. In some cases this was because the men had left to try to find a better life in the US leaving the women behind. In this video the cooperative of women is within a…
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Making Candles
We took a trip to the Teotihuacan Valley. First stop was a famous candle maker. Pictures below show the basic bees wax which she heats and pours as she is demonstrating (standing on a rickety chair). It takes her a week to create one of the giant candle sticks you see here.
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Flowering Tree
I don’t know what the name of this tree is but I was told that it has few leaves, flowers and then remains pretty much bare until it flowers again.
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Folk Dancing at the Quinta Real Hotel
First some history of the Quinta Real Hotel. It was built in 1576 as the Convent of Santa Catalina. The nuns were forced to leave in the mid-1800’s due to the reform laws that were meant to limit the ownership of land by the Catholic Church. It then became municipal offices until 1972 when it was…
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