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Naha and The Lacandon

11_JMoore_LacandonWithBook_Palenque
19_JMoore_Kayum_Palenque
18_JMoore_LacandonBoys_Palenque
9_JMoore_MateoViejoHouse_Naha
17_JMoore_LacBoyArmsCrossed_Palenque
16_JMoore_Lacandon_GodPots_Naha
15_JMoore_KinWithGodPot_Palenque
14_JMoore_TheGodHouse_Naha
12_JMoore_MateoSmoking_HachKuuts_Naha
13_JMoore_KayumPreparingBalche_Naha
10_JMoore_MateoShuckingMaize_Naha
11_JMoore_LacandonWithBook_Palenque
8_JMoore_LacandonWithArrows_Palenque
7_JMoore_KinWithCatch_Naha
2_JMoore_CanoeBailing_Naha
6_JMoore_ChoppingFirewood_Naha
4_JMoore_ChanKinViejo_Naha
5_JMoore_ChanKinViejo_Sleeping_Naha
1_JMoore_Lake_Naha
3_JMoore_CanoeKayum_Naha
About this project:
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These photos were made in the village of Naha located in the Lacandon rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico. Here, I met village elders, the late Chan Kin Viejo and Mateo Viejo, then in their 90’s, still working in the milpa and practicing indigenous, non christian rituals.  The Lacandon of today face a constant struggle between their connections to an eternal past and an increasingly smaller world that
surrounds them.
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