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Learning the metate

In 2018, an indigenous Zapotec woman teaches my wife, a Taiwanese woman, to use the metate to make a large tortilla using techniques that are a 1000 years old.

 

San Marcos Tlapazola, a rural Zapotec village known for the "Women of the red clay"

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Uploaded on January 18, 2026
Taken on October 27, 2018