Rain Season Tzotzil Dress
$130.00
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History: The design at the bottom of the embroidery symbolizes singing frogs. Frogs are important in the Tzotzil culture, because when they start singing it means that the rain season is starting. Artisan: Elena, used a backstrap loom to weave the top part Material: 100% cotton Origin: Tzotzil People, Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico. indigenous Maya peopleChiapas highlandsAs of 2000, they numbered about 298,000The word tzotzil originally meant "bat people" or "people of the bat" in the Tzotzil language (from tzotz"bat"). Today the Tzotzil refer to their language as Bats'i k'op, which means "true word" in the modern language.
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