Guatemalan Chachales #1

We managed to find the "silver shaman" that we met last year in Antigua, before we left. If you don't remember the story, we were approached by this older gentleman, holding these incredible necklaces. We had unfortunately just gotten some very sad news about a friend and kindly declined. But after gathering ourselves we both realized, wait those necklaces were incredible. Maybe 5 minutes had passed. We looked all over the town square and the gentleman was gone. We could not get these necklaces off our minds. The next day we returned to search again and asked some locals about the man. We were told he was only there on Friday and Saturday. We managed to find him on a side street tucked in a doorway. We purchased almost all he had. Went home and did some research. We found out these beautiful coin necklaces were called Chachales. It turns out these necklaces are hard to find. They were the gorgeous adornment of a native Guatemalan woman’s beautiful handwoven huipil. They were worn by th