Columbus Day or Indigenous People Day
Let’s just celebrate our diversity today and everyday! Today is a national holiday in Guatemala: Día de la Raza. So, I would …
Aide-de-camp Models Dressed As Indigenous Women
Can anybody help me understand why a country with a +55% population of indigenous Maya hires European-looking models to dress as Maya …
Guatemalan Indigenous Women
Here’s the follow-up photo to yesterday’s rear view mirror vista. In this picture, you can appreciate the different cortes worn by the …
Indigenous Guatemalan Pants
If you only browse the Indigenous category you will find 58 photos and hundreds more if you browse all 901 consecutive days …
Guatemalan Indigenous Painting from Patzum
What makes art art and what makes everything else handicrafts or folk-art? In Spanish art is arte and handicrafts are artesanías; kind …
Guatemalan Indigenous Singers
I find the singing of the indigenous people extremely haunting and touching, even though, they are singing evangelical hymns. To me this singing has another layer of pain and denouncing which is above the meaning of the words they sing; something much older and more mystical than the religious hymn brought by the European Christianity.
The indigenous women’s dress
The indigenous women’s dress is known as corte (the bottom part or skirt that is). The corte translates roughly as cut or …
Organic Guatemalan Christmas Decorations: White Poinsettias
As I have shared with you before, flores de Pascua or pascuas, are the most popular Christmas floral displays. Poinsettias are also …
Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day Children Portraits
During celebrations of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe, on December 12, you can find gringa moms, Maya mamás, mestizo …
Makeshift photo studio for Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day
On December 12, children are dressed up to commemorate Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day. In the atrium of Parroquia de La …
Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebrations in Antigua Guatemala
As every year, on December 12, kids are dressed up to commemorate Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day. All around the atrium …
Maya Portraits — Young Woman from Santa María de Jesús
Many people believe that the Maya don’t like to be photographed or filmed. Well, if you browse the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com you …
Portrait of Q’eqchi Mayan Women
Some of you may or may not know that La Antigua Guatemala is located within Kackchikel territory, one of the largest Maya …
What’s Are Kaibiles?
Here are some bits and pieces I found on Wikipedia: The Kaibiles (singular: Kaibil) are a special operations force of the Military …
Guatemalan Food: Sancocho from 7 Caldos
If you have follow the daily updates from AntiguaDailyPhto you may know that I enjoy taking the most innocent and harmless photograph …