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Ester Cecilia Montepeque Berthet
COUNTRY
Guatemala
COSTUME
Todos Los Santos Cuchumatán
Costume Provided by
Consulate General of Guatemala in Vancouver
Todos Santos Cuchumatán: Located in the highlands of Guatemala, this charming municipality is nestled in the Cuchumatanes mountains at altitudes ranging from 1,500 to 3,100 meters.
The handcrafted Mayan costume used by the “Mam” men is woven by the women of Todos Santos Cuchumatán using cotton threads and a backstrap loom. Pants with red and white vertical stripes are a unique characteristic of this village, located in Huehuetenango (the northern highlands of Guatemala). The shirt is white with red or purple lines, and the neck and cuffs are decorated with colorful brocades. They also wear woolen overpants and a handmade palm hat with a decorated ribbon around it.
Meaning of colors in typical Guatemalan costumes:
Red: energy, blood, tools for farming, work, where the sun rises.
Black: path of darkness, where the sun sets, rest, reflection, and space for concentration.
White: purity, divinity, path of the wind, brings good things and removes bad ones, represents life, seed, and existence.
Yellow: health, wisdom, path of water.
These four colors also represent the colors of corn and beans, symbolizing cardinal points and the races of the world.
Blue: It is Ajaw, the supreme God, the universe, and infinity.
Green: symbolizing nature.”
