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the Chichicastenango pattern
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Copyright: kris verswe (verswe)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 1999-05 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-02-07 17:47 |
| Viewed: 1300 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Guatemala - the market town of Chichicastenango
Chichi, as it is called, is renowned mainly for its Sunday and Thursday markets, Sunday being the busiest. Chichi is a traditional hill village in the Guatemalan Highlands, and is historically an important meeting place for the members of various Mayan tribes. With its cobbled streets and red tiled roofs, it has been one of the largest centres of trade since pre-Hispanic times and thousands of people gather in a spectacle of colour every week.
The market is a patchwork of colour, with stalls piled high with red tomatoes, white onions and yellow bananas. Other stalls are stocked with bright Guatemalan textiles in hues of magenta, purple, orange, crimson, lime green from clothing to carpets is woven by hand in an astonishing array of patterns.
Men at the market wear striped pants and shirts with the woolen rodillera wrapped skirt-like over their trousers. As you wander around, you will see many variations of the traditional native costume, from all over Guatemala. There are subtle combinations of 2 or 3 colours, but some outfits contain the entire spectrum, as if trying to encapsulate a rainbow; it's really quite amazing.
In the Highlands most people wear traditional clothes. Every village has its own clothing-code. Most clothes are homemade woven and the patterns are very beautiful. Each village its own pattern. The Maya are said to have over 500 distinctive styles of clothing, each denoting a village, tribal identity and with the essence of a legend or bit of local history woven into the colourful pattern. |
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Kris,
Great composition. Very nice crazy colors and lines throughout the photo. Very vivid.
- canan
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(945) - [2006-02-08 1:11]
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very well defined image with lots of patterns. thanks for sharing..
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