"For this occasion of the vaqueria the Mayas are wearing shoes. Usually they traipsed about in bare feet like soft souled ghosts. That hair ribbon is used on Sundays and festive occasions." At the center of this photograph a young man bows to the woman standing in front of him. Behind them, women and children sit along the outer wall of a building.
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