Mercado Artesan De MariscalMariscal an older term for 'New Town', and has been referred to as gringolandia by Bert. - the terms are interchangeable. Also of note: gringos not the majority here, at all, but are perhaps most dense in this area.
We live a couple of blocks from this market, where indigenous people sell their wares.
Chess pieces carved into natives and conquistadors.
Reproduction of a painting by Guyasamin, perhaps Ecuador's most famous painter. His artwork is pervasive here.
I love this composition of market images.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is the substance they carve? Rock, Wood, Horn, etc? Is there favorite/only motif conquistadors or is there much Inca or Catholic/Spanish influence? Others like local animals or local mythic monsters or....?
ReplyDeleteHow about those colorful fabrics? Are those blankets or bolts of cloth?
What is the deal with the praying women dolls?
What is the weird stuff you are eating? What was the best/most surprising thing?
Pops, they carve a lot of wood, jade, and some bone. There is also a lot of leatherwork, I'm wearing two wristbands right now (one is from an artist who said he was Navajo)...
ReplyDeleteMost of the textiles are made of alpaca, but a good bit of it is machine stiched, modern synthetics (I suspect these are made in China).
The alpaca stuff is cool though, it is incredibly soft.
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