Source: WTL© digital photograph taken on site in Antigua, Guatemala.
Comments: In the Parque Central the professor-photographer bought some pretty Guatemalan earrings for his wife from the little girl featured here next to her mother. He also chatted with them in Spanish, asked permission to take their photo, and paid them for such kind permission. You can see the beautiful designs on their hand-sewn clothes, the style of which is unique to their town and their particular Mayan dialect group. The mother's satchel contains the articles they sell in and near the central park. They told me that they commute to Antigua each day on a public bus that takes an hour each way to and from their predominantly Mayan-speaking aldea (village). For a superb book on Mayan textile art and culture, see: The Mayan Textile Tradition (New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997) with photographs by Jeffrey Jay Foxx and edited by Margot Blum Schevill.
Humanities topic: Knowing that the foregrounded mother and daughter live an hour outside of Antigua, comment on their presence in the context seen in the background.