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The villages here are on a new highway between the municipal capital Calnali and Atlapexco Hidalgo. During my first visit to Tehuetlan, I met Francisco Prado in the market. He was wearing the typical men’s white muslin costume; he let me take his picture. Whenever I take a picture, it is important to me to return and give that person a copy of the picture. When I arrived in Papatlatla I found him and we talked. He told me about the other towns on this page. The weather was bad that day, so I returned a few days later to shoot more photos. I found a young man dedicated to the preservation of the textile tradition in the town. He showed me some of the work they are doing and brought some women in costume to be photographed. There is an in-depth look at the textiles from Papatlatla in the Textile patterns page. The Nahua of Hidalgo are located in the northeastern part of the state, along the border with Veracruz and San Luis Potosi. Many towns that are located in the Sierra Huasteca remain monolingual, with Nahua being the principal language of commerce, government and home. The schools are bi-lingual. The Nahua language is full of dialects and differences to such a degree that many areas are unable to communicate with one another. In this study, the Nahua of the region have been broken into a variety of areas to facilitate web page loading. |
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