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Todos Santos Cuchumatan is a large Mam speaking town high in the Cuchumatanes Mountains in the Department of Huehuetenango. Both men and women wear traditional dress. “The Todos Santos huipil of the 1960’s shows little change from that of the 1930’s except that there is considerably more brocading to cover the red-and-white striped ground”. This trend has continued to the present and the ground is now typically a solid color, most often red. “The huipil is always three webs and has a white ruffled collar; in the 1930’s it was loose, but here is is sewn down an zigzagged with . . .rickrack.” (Altman and West, Threads of Identity, Fowler Museum, p. 136)
The Todos Santos men are renowned for their proud bearing and their costume adds to their stature. Men’s shirts are woven in heavy cotton, with big, floppy brocaded collars. They wear red striped pants that used to be heavily brocaded, distinctive straw hats and a “sobre-pantalones” and jackets of hand spun wool. They also carry a morral (shoulder bag) that they crochet themselves. These bags have become a popular tourist item.
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