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These are just a few photos I've taken during many trips all over Mexico. Also I've written diaries about these trips which you can get an idea about from the captions. Someday, I hope to publish all my travel diaries in book form. |
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Tepesquintle Hunting I took this photo of a Mazatec Indian boy in Motzotzongo, Oaxaca. What is a tepesquintle? A cross between a rat and a deer. This boy's father hunts them and served one up for breakfast for us, hooves and all. Of course we ate it just like the pig brain tamales we ate out of courtesy in Hualtla. So much for vegetarian cuisine. |
| Mazatec Children The main crop of the Mazatec here is coffee, which you can see in the large bags. The children speak only their native tongue, Mazatec, and some Spanish. The girl in this photo made a picture dictionary of about 50 Mazatec words for me which I translated from Spanish and back to English. Her mother had the first child at age 14. |
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Sorting the Beans Here a woman is sorting out the green coffee beans which aren't ready yet. The women keep the coffee brewed in the village round the clock and it's heated in a pot over a "stove" heated by fire and rocks. No electricity or gas here. |
| Mulejockey Good thing there was all that coffee to sober us up in the morning. As we were walking around what we called this "Mother Goose" fairy tale village, some guys on horseback decided to buy us about 9 rounds of beers, after which we decided to ride around on their horses, only to later find out that the men were "enemies" from a neighboring village. Other "leaders" of Motzotzongo have been run out by bandits sticking hot chillies up their noses. Guess we'd better stick to riding the locals' mules next time. The person we stayed with was the current leader of the village and was making plans for everyone to build a bridge. He also carries a loaded pistol. |
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Clockwork Pink and Green The one in pink is the anthropologist who lived in Oaxaca for over a year and speaks fluent Spanish. He was kind enough to take Blort on this trip. |
| Angels Hualtla These are "angels" sleeping in Hualtla, a town in Oaxaca known for the currendera Maria Sabina, who was visited by John Lennon. The mother of these children was also a currendera and she taught us truths and untruths surrounding Maria Sabina. Mushrooms are painted everywhere, even on the elemetary schools here, but to deflect "white people" stereotypes, we chose not to have any mushroom ceremony. They do have something like sweatlodges here and are extrememly spritual people. Candles, herbs, shrines... rituals using all these things are practiced. |
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Art Gallery near Zepolete These were life sized statues made of wood. As you can see (if you click on the image) the women in the statues are fierce, armed, warriors. They are revolutionaries and Zapatistas. The girl standing there in front of them also speaks fluent Spanish and lived in San Miguel de Allende. Her father is a sculptor there who turned his entire roof into a giant chessboard with carved pieces that can be moved around spaces on the roof for the game. As you can imagine, the pieces are also almost as big as you or I. I travelled with this girl almost all the way to Chiapas. |
| Three Wise Men At least one of the three wise men was black. In Mexico, theatre is still a big part of church services. |
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Poverty Revealed In addition to interior Mexico, I also visited border towns, in this case Boquilles, just across from Big Bend in Texas. The man in the photo wants to sell me a crystal from the mines. The hotsprings here are right on the Rio Grande. A great spot to see shooting stars. |
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Like a Holiday in Cambodia |
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