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Costume for the Danza de los Viejitos (Dance of the Old Men) of Michoacan

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Ethnic Group: Purépecha

Donated by Angeles López-Portillo de Stiteler

Mask

Handmade mask of blue-eyed, toothless man of lacquered wood and decorated with ixtle
hair

Sarape

Woven poncho of thick cotton threads.

Sombrero

Woven palm fibers that are decorated with colored plastic ribbons

Bastón

Wooden cane made from a tree root

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