Back-strap Weaver all a tradition celebrated during Carnival

a tradition celebrated during Carnival and the Dia de los Muertos in Izúcar de Matamoros in the Mixteca region of Puebla

often resembling a bull

8 cm (largest)

Hermelinda crafts for these figures costumes out of strips of fabric like the Tiliche charcters from the Putla Villa de Guerrero Carnival wear

a humming bird taking nectar from the cactus flowers

Back-strap Weaver all a tradition celebrated during Carnival32x18, h. 34 cm Wood Paint Origin Oaxaca Signed This form of weaving is still common in Oaxaca. It is used to make fine, narrow cloth. Gabino shows one weaver at work whereas two or three weaver as might use the same tree to anchor their looms.