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Chopin de Cumes kindly permitted me to take this photo of her to show what
a typical Panajachel huipil [blouse] looks like. I did not know
her but recognized that from her huipil that she was a native of
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| Panajachel is one of a handful of towns which nearly all tourists visiting Guatemala pass through. It's main streets are crowded with vendors selling hand woven items from all parts of Guatemala. In addition to the tourists many people from Germany, Canada, the United States and other countries have settled in Panajachel because of it's wonderful climate. Mayans from all parts of Guatemala also reside in Panajachel to sell their wares. Panajachel, once a Mayan town, has been so inundated by outsiders that the few Mayans who still wear the typical traje of Panajachel have become almost invisible. Although I could easily identify the huipiles of all the towns around Lake Atitlán and I had passed through Panajachel hundreds of times, I did not until this year find out what the huipil looked like. | |||||||||||||
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