Antonio Coche Mendoza Oil Painting - Three Mayan Woman - Espalda View (P-M-ACM_20A) 7" x15" Hummingbirds Santa Catarina Palopo 18" Doll

Santa Catarina Palopo 18" Doll Outfit ---  hand-woven on a back-strap loom

These wonderful embroidered tapestries are the folk art of today - where traditional Mayan skills and themes have sound a new medium of expression

I bought the skirt from Maria in 2011

Many books have documented the colorful textiles of the Guatemalan Maya: Traditional Weavers of Guatemala

She is one of the first women painters of this town and I have been buying from her for at least 15 years

Antonio Coche Mendoza Oil Painting - Three Mayan Woman - Espalda View (P-M-ACM_20A) 7" x15" Hummingbirds Santa Catarina Palopo 18" DollOriginal oil painting, signed "Coche" of Three Mayan Woman, espalda (back) view. Antonio Coche Mendoza is Angelina Quic's husband and initially taught her to paint. Painting size approximatively 7" x 15".