WM-GRO Field report
La Montaña de Guerrero
This field report gathers the photographs made in Laguna Seca, a Mèʼphàà community in the municipality of Malinaltepec, in La Montaña de Guerrero. The folders move through the territory, with houses, ridges, fields, and rain, the interview with Maestro Abertano Gerónimo Cantú García, and the Xtá Ratsá dance he leads with girls, boys, and young people. They also hold the signing of the collaboration and permissions agreement, the work on the headdresses, and the event.
- Region
- La Montaña de Guerrero
- Communities
- Laguna Seca
10 folders · 534 photographs
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WM-GRO-0101 Territory
The photographs look at the territory from Laguna Seca.
17 photographs -
WM-GRO-0202 Interview
The folder documents the interview with Maestro Abertano Gerónimo Cantú García, a traditional Mèʼphàà musician, in Laguna Seca.
26 photographs -
WM-GRO-0303 First Xtá Ratsá rehearsal
Girls, boys, and adolescents rehearse the Xtá Ratsá dance for the first time in the Laguna Seca school courtyard, with Maestro Abertano Gerónimo Cantú García.
71 photographs -
WM-GRO-0404 Signing of the agreement and additional photographs
The folder opens with the signing of the collaboration and permissions agreement: three men are at a table, and one holds the page up toward the camera.
9 photographs -
WM-GRO-0505 Interview and territory
The folder mixes daily life in Laguna Seca.
34 photographs -
WM-GRO-0606 Laguna Seca, May 17
In Laguna Seca, girls and boys of Xtá Ratsá pose and walk with paper headdresses, sticks, and shields.
28 photographs -
WM-GRO-0707 Headdress
Hands build the dance headdresses on the concrete, in the shade.
25 photographs -
WM-GRO-0808 Delivery of materials and rehearsal
The folder joins the delivery and the rehearsal.
122 photographs -
WM-GRO-0909 Headdresses and delivery
In a room with blue and yellow walls, women, men, girls, and boys assemble the headdresses.
79 photographs -
WM-GRO-1010 Xtá Ratsá event
The folder follows the Xtá Ratsá event from the preparation through the dance at night.
123 photographs