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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

El Oficio de Tejer/The Craft of Weaving
(1981, 42 min.) MEXICO
Director: Juan Carlos Colin for INI.

Life in a Nahuatl-speaking Indian community in Puebla is explored. The film focuses on weaving and the problems people face in trying to subsist on the sale of their work.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI

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