- Museo de Trajes Regionales
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Museo de Trajes Regionales Established ???? Location - 38 Guadalupe Victoria
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Type Indigenous Chiapan clothing and artifacts Curator Sergio Castro Martinez Website http://sergiocastrosc.blogspot.com/ Museo de Trajes Regionales is located in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The museum displays more than 90 costumes and dress from the indigenous populations of Chiapas. This is unique because typically all clothing and personal possessions are buried with the dead. Jewelry, musical instruments, costume accessories, religious objects, hats, masks, animal skins and statuettes are on display. The tour is given by the museum collector and owner Sergio Castro Martinez, a knowledgeable local humanitarian. He describes the locations, dress, ceremonies, ways and daily life of the indigenous.
Mexican handcrafts and folk art Clay and ceramics Mexican ceramics • Talavera (pottery) • Ceramics of Jalisco • Tree of Life (craft) • Barro Negro pottery • Green glazed pottery of Atzompa
Textiles Textiles of Mexico • Textiles of Oaxaca
Paper Crafts towns Santa María Atzompa (pottery) • San Bartolo Coyotepec (pottery) • Ocotlán de Morelos (pottery, blades) • San Martín Tilcajete (alebrijes) • Santa Clara del Cobre (copper crafts) • Teotitlán del Valle (rugs) • Temoaya (rugs) • Tlalpujahua (Christmas ornaments)
Crafts and popular art museums Artisans William Spratling • Pedro Linares • Jorge Wilmot] • Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo
Other Stichting Chiapas Indianen - Dutch foundation supporting the work of Sergio Castro
Categories:- Chiapas
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- 38 Guadalupe Victoria
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