Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
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Hilario Alejos Madrigal with painted and fired ceramics
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Martina Navarro Gonzalez with painted lacquerware
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A painted pear carving
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Alfonso Ramirez Sotero and Javier Ramirez Hernandez with an ornate tree of life.
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Leo Ojinage assistant to Eleazar Morales Ramirez painting an animal carving
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Embroidered blouses
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Blouses by Ernesto Tirado Aguilar
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Jasibe del Carmen Gutierrez Garcia with wooden jewelry
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Wooden, beaded and cloth jewelry
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Soledad Eustalia Garcia Garcia with handmade jewelry from Joyeria corazones de madero in Oaxaca
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Gaston Aguilar Rendon with his many feather creations
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Feather "painting"
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Gaston Aguilar Rendon holding a Kozamalotl an Aztecan dance ornament to be worn on leg or head made from feathers
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Jorge Castillo Balbuena, painting, and Alfredo Ulises Balbuena, standing
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Maria Elena Lopez Suarez with burñido clay ornaments burnished with pyrite before firing.
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Fernando Jimon Melchor painting a small piece
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Ceramic pieces by Fernando Jimon Melchor
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Maria Isabel Hernandez Mendoza creating a large straw art image
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Elizabeth Garcia Morales with painted work
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Victor Manuel Reyes Ramos and his painted work
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Patricia Garcia doing popotillo, fine straw work
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Work at the Mazatec Women Weavers and Embroiderers
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Work by Mazatec Women weavers and embroiderers
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Roberto Domingo Mejia Muñoz starting a new straw art project
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David y Francisco Jesus Hernandez Perez with paintings and jewelry
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Maria Arcelia Barbero Gomez with her intricately painted mirrors
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Martha Celia Colunga Errecalde with her woven and embroidered clothing items
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Julio Laja Chichicaxtle with his painted and embroidered wall hangings
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Bertha Servin Barriga holds up a yellow embroidered vest
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Herminio Ramirez Diaz holds a beaded owl.
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Demetrio Buatista Lazo talks about his carpets to Marguerite Flanighean
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Pedro Hernandez Cruz with his painted wares
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Rubi Corral Salgado Tellez with handmade silver jewelry
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Patricia Taber checks out Teresa Perez's blouses.
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Teresa Perez with items of clothing she makes
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Cecilia Ramirez Reynoso, at right, shows jewelry to a customer
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Zenen Fuentes Santiago with painted mythical carving
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Francisco Martinez Ruiz y Isaac Armando Martinez Lazo with rugs
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Jorge Morales holding an ornate carving and silver-plated decorative piece.
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Goyín Silveira Hdez with Maria Graciela Martinez Quezada Mata Ortiz pottery
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Martha Monroy is proud of this basket she made
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Miguel Estrella Romero with a wood carving
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Procoro Ruíz Gutiérrez shows a woven bag
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José Manuel Ruiz Salazar with a necklace he created
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Aleida Ortega Herrera exhibits one of her lino prints
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David Avila creates a decorative weaving from natural materials.
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Sherry Edwards learns different ways to wear the item of clothing made by Camela Ramos Zamora
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José Mancio Gutierrez del Estado de México weaving as Robert Carr and Cesar Muñiz look on
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Daniel Andrey Gomez Salgado telling potential customers how to take care of the copperaare.
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Daniel Andrey Gomez Saldago y Rosa Ivette Paz Gonzalez with their copper ware
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Paper flowers decorate the mercado tent
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Sonia Gonzalez, Cecilia Gonzales and Gabriela Gonzales of Sonia's Gourmet Chips
The Fiesta Latina mercado tent held many vendors selling clothing, weavings, straw art, jewelry, ceramics and wooden decorative items, paintings from prints to feathers, carpets and rugs. If you were looking for it you would likely find it. And vendors outside the tent served food from tacos to ice cream.