Lucía, my mom, held my older sister Juana. She was less than a year old.  Mom and dad would have never imagined that Juana would pass away so young at one of the plantations while working and when they were far away from home.

Mamá Lucía wears in this family portrait her ceremonial white dress, called «Col» or Guipil–which she inherited from her mom, from her grandmother, her great grandmother and so on. I wasn’t born yet and Juana, the second of all my siblings, was still alive. My dad holds her. In this picture he is using his black wool “Capixay”, the male q’anjob’al traditional clothing.